- Well-founded and comprehensive overview of IT security
- Includes all innovations on the legal situation regarding Privacy & Data Security
- With preparation questions for each subject area
Enterprise threats from attacks and vulnerabilities in the systems are constantly growing. Information security is therefore a key issue in any IT environment. Companies need to deal thoroughly with the topic and continuously educate themselves. The CompTIA Security+ certification is a valuable proof of practical and comprehensive knowledge of corporate security topics and the exam covers the important issues.
In the current version of the exam (SYO-701) these are:
- General safety concepts
- Threats, vulnerabilities and defenses
- Security Architecture
- Safe operation
- Manage and monitor security programs
The authors comprehensively deal with the mentioned topics and provide you with this book the expertise necessary for certification. The focus is on building your own understanding of IT security. This gives you the necessary basics to successfully pass the CompTIA Security+ exam.
From the contents:
- Safety Management and Policies
- Cryptography Fundamentals
- Different access procedures
- Authentication Methods
- Current legal situation in data protection
- Biometric Detection Systems
- Safety through redundancy
- Make IT infrastructure resilient
- System Hardening Basics
- Malware Hazards
- Targeted and novel attack forms
- Social Engineering
- Phishing, pharming and other malignancies.
- Secure mail traffic
- Security for logs
- Make cloud computing secure
- Denial of Service, Buffer Overflow, Race Condition
- Cross-site scripting, SQL injection, LDAP injection.
- Spoofing, Man-in-the-Middle, Session Hijacking
- Secure connections through VPN and Remote Access
- Security implications for embedded systems and IoT
- Configure WLAN securely.
- System and network monitoring
- Analysis programs Wireshark, RRDTools, Nagios
- Different firewall concepts
- Backup Methods
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Pentesting and Forensics
- Metasploit Framework
- Security audits and security audits