This course provides the basic knowledge needed to plan, implement, and maintain information security in a vendor-neutral format. This includes risk management, host and network security, authentication and access control systems, cryptography, and organizational security.
After completing this course, you will know how to:
- Prepare a study plan for the CompTIA Security+ exam
- Correctly use fundamental security technology, conduct risk assessments, and plan vulnerability assessments
- Recognize common attacks including social engineering, malware, network attacks, and application attacks
- Identify fundamental network components and technologies, understand network addresses, and recognize common network ports and applications
- Identify common network security components and secure transport protocols, harden networks, and apply monitoring and detection techniques
- Explain common cryptographic techniques and standards, identify public key infrastructure concepts, and apply transport encryption
- Apply security controls to data, hosts, and mobile devices
- Plan secure web applications and virtual services
- Explain authentication factors and understand network authentication protocols
- Recognize access control models, apply file-level access control, and centrally manage account security
- Apply operational security techniques through organizational policies, user training, and physical security controls
- Plan for disaster through business continuity plans, fault tolerant systems, data backups, and incident response policies
