Robert Shimonski, Martin M. Weiss

CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Exam Cram (eBook, ePUB)

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CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Exam Cram is an all-inclusive study guide designed to help you pass the updated version of the CompTIA Security+ exam. Prepare for test day success with complete coverage of exam objectives and topics, plus hundreds of realistic practice questions. Extensive prep tools include quizzes, Exam Alerts, and our essential last-minute review Cram Sheet. The powerful Pearson Test Prep practice software provides real-time assessment and feedback with two complete exams.

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• Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
• Security architecture
• Security operations
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• Verlag: Pearson ITP
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780138225506
• Artikelnr.: 72259844

Autorenporträt

Robert Shimonski, CASP+, CySA+, PenTest+, Security+, is a technology executive specializing in healthcare IT for one of the largest health systems in America. In his current role, Rob is responsible for bringing operational support and incident response into the future with the help of new technologies such as cloud and artificial intelligence. His current focus is on deploying securely to the cloud (Azure, AWS, and Google), DevOps, DevSecOps, and AIOps. Rob spent many years in the technology "trenches," handling networking and security architecture, design, engineering, testing, and development efforts for global projects. A go-to person for all things security related, Rob has been a major force in deploying security-related systems for 25+ years. Rob also worked for various companies reviewing and developing security curriculum as well as other security-related books, technical articles, and publications based on technology deployment, testing, hacking, pen testing, and many other aspects of security. Rob holds dozens of technology certifications, including 20+ CompTIA certifications, SANS.org GIAC, GSEC, and GCIH, as well as many vendor-based cloud-specialized certifications from Google, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS. Rob is considered a leading expert in prepping others to achieve certification success.

Marty M. Weiss has spent his career serving in the U.S. Navy and as a civilian helping large organizations with their information security. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer studies from the University of Maryland Global Campus and an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also holds several certifications, including CISSP, CISA, and Security+. Having authored numerous acclaimed books on information technology and security, he is now diving into his next endeavor-a seductive romance novel where love and cybersecurity collide in a high-stakes adventure.

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Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Part 1: General Security Concepts 1
CHAPTER 1: Security Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                Nature of Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                Functional Use of Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CHAPTER 2: Fundamental Security Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
                Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA).. . . .
. . . . . 12
                Non-Repudiation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA).. . . .
. . . 13
                Gap Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
                Zero Trust.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
                Physical Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
                Video Surveillance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
                Deception and Disruption Technology. . . . . . . . . . . .
23
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
CHAPTER 3: Change Management Processes and the Impact to Security.. . . . .
27
                Change Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                Business Processes Impacting Security Operations. . . . . .
. . 28
                Technical Implications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
31
                Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
                Version Control.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CHAPTER 4: Cryptographic Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
                Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
40
                Encryption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                Tools.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Part 2: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations 81
CHAPTER 5: Threat Actors and Motivations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
83
                Threat Actors.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
                Motivations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
CHAPTER 6: Threat Vectors and Attack Surfaces.. . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                Types of Threat Vectors and Attack Surfaces. . . . . . . .
. . 98
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
CHAPTER 7: Vulnerability Types.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 115
                Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
                Operating System-Based.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
118
                Web-Based. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
                Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
                Virtualization.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
121
                Cloud-Specific.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
                Supply Chain.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
                Cryptographic.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
                Misconfiguration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                Mobile Device.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                Zero-Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
CHAPTER 8: Malicious Attacks and Indicators.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . 131
                Malware Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                Physical Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
138
                Network Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
                Application Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
148
                Cryptographic Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
153
                Password Attacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
                Indicators of Malicious Activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 156
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
CHAPTER 9 Mitigation Techniques for Securing the Enterprise..  . . . . 161
                Segmentation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
                Access Control.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
                Application Allow List.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
164
                Isolation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
                Patching.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Part 3: Security Architecture 177
CHAPTER 10: Security Implications of Architecture Models. . . . . . . .
179
                Architecture and Infrastructure Concepts. . . . . . . . . .
. 180
                Considerations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
CHAPTER 11: Enterprise Architecture Security Principles.. . .  . . . . . .
211
                Infrastructure Considerations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
212
                Secure Communication/Access.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
224
                Selection of Effective Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 228
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
CHAPTER 12: Data Protection Strategies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
233
                Data Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                Data Classifications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
237
                General Data Considerations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
238
                Methods to Secure Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
CHAPTER 13: Resilience and Recovery in Security Architecture.. . . .. .
247
                High Availability.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
248
                Site Considerations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
249
                Platform Diversity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
                Multicloud Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
252
                Continuity of Operations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
252
                Capacity Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                Testing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
                Backups.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
                Power.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Part 4: Security Operations 265
CHAPTER 14: Securing Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
                Secure Baselines.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
268
                Hardening Targets.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
                Wireless Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
                Mobile Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
                Wireless Security Settings.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
285
                Application Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
289
                Sandboxing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
                Monitoring.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
CHAPTER 15: Hardware, Software, and Data Asset Management.. . . . . . . . .
295
                Acquisition/Procurement Process.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
296
                Assignment/Accounting.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
                Monitoring and Asset Tracking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
299
                Disposal/Decommissioning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
300
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
CHAPTER 16: Vulnerability Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
307
                Identification Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
308
                Analysis.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
                Vulnerability Response and Remediation.. . . . . . . . . .
. 322
                Validation of Remediation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
325
                Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
CHAPTER 17: Security Alerting and Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
329
                Monitoring Computing Resources.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
330
                Activities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
                Tools.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
CHAPTER 18: Enterprise Security Capabilities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 349
                Firewall.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
                IDS/IPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
                Web Filter.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                Operating System Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
361
                Implementation of Secure Protocols.. . . . . . . . . . . .
. 363
                DNS Filtering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
                Email Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
                File Integrity Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
369
                Data Loss Prevention (DLP).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
370
                Network Access Control (NAC).. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
371
                Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)/Extended Detection
and Response (XDR)..372
                User Behavior Analytics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
373
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
CHAPTER 19: Identity and Access Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
377
                Provisioning/De-provisioning User Accounts.. . . . . . . .
. . 378
                Permission Assignments and Implications. . . . . . . . . .
. 379
                Identity Proofing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
                Federation and Single Sign-On (SSO).. . . . . . . . . . . .
382
                Interoperability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
                Attestation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
                Access Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
                Multifactor Authentication (MFA).. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 388
                Password Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
                Privileged Access Management Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . .
397
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
CHAPTER 20: Security Automation and Orchestration. . . . . . . . . . . . .
401
                Use Cases of Automation and Scripting.. . . . . . . . . . .
. 402
                Benefits.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
                Other Considerations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
406
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
CHAPTER 21: Incident Response Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
409
                Incident Response Process.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
410
                Training and Testing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
411
                Root Cause Analysis (RCA).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
412
                Threat Hunting.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
                Digital Forensics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
414
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
CHAPTER 22: Data Sources for Supporting Investigations. . . . . . . . . . .
. 419
                Log Data.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
                Data Sources.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Part 5: Security Program Management and Oversight 425
CHAPTER 23: Effective Security Governance.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
427
                Governing Framework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
                Policies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
                Standards.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
                Procedures.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
                Guidelines.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
                External Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
453
                Roles and Responsibilities for Systems and Data.. . . . . .
. . . 460
                What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
CHAPTER 24: Risk Management.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
                Risk Identification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
466
                Risk Assessment.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
                Risk Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
                Risk Register.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
                Risk Appetite and Tolerance.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
474
                Risk Management Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
475
                Risk Reporting.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477