CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: SY0-401

Join over 250,000 IT professionals who've earned Security+certification

If you're an IT professional hoping to progress in your career,then you know that the CompTIA Security+ exam is one of the mostvaluable certifications available. Since its introduction in 2002,over a quarter million professionals have achieved Security+certification, itself a springboard to prestigious certificationslike the CASP, CISSP, and CISA. The CompTIA Security+ StudyGuide: SY0-401 covers 100% of the Security+ exam objectives,with clear and concise information on crucial security topics.

You'll find everything you need to prepare for the 2014 versionof the Security+ certification exam, including insight fromindustry experts on a wide range of IT security topics. Readersalso get access to a robust set of learning tools, featuringelectronic flashcards, assessment tests, robust practice testenvironment, with hundreds of practice questions, and electronicflashcards.

• CompTIA authorized and endorsed
• Includes updates covering the latest changes to the exam,including better preparation for real-world applications
• Covers key topics like network security, compliance andoperational security, threats and vulnerabilities, access controland identity management, and cryptography
• Employs practical examples and insights to provide real-worldcontext from two leading certification experts
• Provides the necessary tools to take that first important steptoward advanced security certs like CASP, CISSP, and CISA, inaddition to satisfying the DoD's 8570 directive

If you're serious about jump-starting your security career, youneed the kind of thorough preparation included in the CompTIASecurity+ Study Guide: SY0-401.

Emmett Dulaney is an Assistant Professor at AndersonUniversity. He has written several certification books on Windows,security, IT project management, and UNIX, and was the co-author ofCompTIA A+ Complete Study Guide (Sybex).
Chuck Easttom has many years of practical experience in all aspects of IT. He holds a Doctor of Science in CyberSecurity and 3 masters degrees(including 1 in applied computer science and 1 in systems engineering). He has authored 26 computer science books ( so far) and is an inventor with fifteen computer science patents, and numerous research papers on topics such as digital forensics, cyber warfare,engineering processes,cryptography, and other areas.
He was a subject matter expert for CompTIA in the creation of their Security+, Linux+,and Server+certification tests and on the Job Task Analysis team for CEH v8. He created the OSForensics certification test and course.  He currently holds  over 40 IT certifications (A+,Network+, iNet+, Linux+,Server+,MCP, MCAD, MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA,MCTS,MCITP, CEH, CHFI, CISSP, CCFP, ISSAP,and more).  He is also a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM, as well as a Senior Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of INCOSE and IACR.