CompTIA Security+ Training

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Although it is not required, we suggest having CompTIA Network+ or equivalent certification and/or approximately 2 years of industry experience.

Course Description

The CompTIA Security+ certification exam will verify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to assess the security posture of an enterprise environment and recommend and implement appropriate security solutions; monitor and secure hybrid environments, including cloud, mobile, and IoT; operate with an awareness of applicable laws and policies, including principles of governance, risk, and compliance; and identify, analyze, and respond to security events and incidents.

Learning Objectives

• Compare and contrast different types of social engineering techniques.
• Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators to determine the type of attack.
• Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators associated with application and network attacks.
• Explain different threat actors, vectors, and intelligence sources.
• Explain the security concerns associated with various types of vulnerabilities.
• Summarize the techniques used in security assessments.
• Explain the techniques used in penetration testing.
• Explain the importance of security concepts in an enterprise environment.
• Summarize virtualization and cloud computing concepts and authentication and authorization design concepts.
• Summarize secure application development, deployment, and automation concepts.
• Given a scenario, implement cybersecurity resilience.
• Explain the security implications of embedded and specialized systems.
• Explain the importance of physical security controls.
• Summarize the basics of cryptographic concepts.
• Given a scenario, implement secure protocols.
• Given a scenario, implement host or application security solutions and secure network designs.
• Given a scenario, install and configure wireless security settings and implement secure mobile solutions.
• Given a scenario, apply cybersecurity solutions to the cloud.
• Given a scenario, implement identity and account management controls and authentication and authorization solutions.
• Given a scenario, implement public key infrastructure.
• Given a scenario, use the appropriate tool to assess organizational security.
• Summarize the importance of policies, processes, and procedures for incident response.
• Given an incident, utilize appropriate data sources to support an investigation.
• Given an incident, apply mitigation techniques or controls to secure an environment.
• Explain the key aspects of digital forensics.
• Compare and contrast various types of controls.
• Explain the importance of applicable regulations, standards, or frameworks that impact organizational security posture.
• Explain the importance of policies to organizational security.
• Summarize risk management processes and concepts.
• Explain privacy and sensitive data concepts in relation to security.

Course Outline

1 – Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities

• Compare and contrast different types of social engineering techniques.
• Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators to determine the type of attack.
• Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators associated with application attacks.
• Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators associated with network attacks.
• Explain different threat actors, vectors, and intelligence sources.
• Explain the security concerns associated with various types of vulnerabilities.
• Summarize the techniques used in security assessments.
• Explain the techniques used in penetration testing.

2 – Architecture and Design

• Explain the importance of security concepts in an enterprise environment.
• Summarize virtualization and cloud computing concepts.
• Summarize secure application development, deployment, and automation concepts.
• Summarize authentication and authorization design concepts.
• Given a scenario, implement cybersecurity resilience.
• Explain the security implications of embedded and specialized systems.
• Explain the importance of physical security controls.
• Summarize the basics of cryptographic concepts.

3 – Implementation

• Given a scenario, implement secure protocols.
• Given a scenario, implement host or application security solutions.
• Given a scenario, implement secure network designs.
• Given a scenario, install and configure wireless security settings.
• Given a scenario, implement secure mobile solutions.
• Given a scenario, apply cybersecurity solutions to the cloud.
• Given a scenario, implement identity and account management controls.
• Given a scenario, implement authentication and authorization solutions.
• Given a scenario, implement public key infrastructure.

4 – Operations and Incident Response

• Given a scenario, use the appropriate tool to assess organizational security.
• Summarize the importance of policies, processes, and procedures for incident response.
• Given an incident, utilize appropriate data sources to support an investigation.
• Given an incident, apply mitigation techniques or controls to secure an environment.
• Explain the key aspects of digital forensics.

5 – Governance, Risk, and Compliance

• Compare and contrast various types of controls.
• Explain the importance of applicable regulations, standards, or frameworks that impact organizational security posture.
• Explain the importance of policies to organizational security.
• Summarize risk management processes and concepts.
• Explain privacy and sensitive data concepts in relation to security.

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