CompTIA Security+ 2008 (SY0-201)
Keeping computer data secure is one of the keystone needs of any organization. This certification validates the information security knowledge and skills of any IT professional. It is an international, vendor-neutral certification recognized by major hardware and software vendors, distributors and resellers. This study guide will prepare you to perform system and network security assessments and respond to security weaknesses and breaches. Practice exams are also included, which will allow you to answer questions in the same format that the test will use on exam day, and will provide in-depth instructional feedback on each question to thoroughly cover every subject you'll need to master.
This series is for anyone who wants to achieve CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 certification. This online course contains 9 lessons and 8 practice exams and should take approximately 33 hours to complete.
General Security Concepts
This course explains how the various aspects of computer security relate to your job as a security professional and teaches you how to describe the goals of information security, explain the security process, identify the components and purpose of various authentication models, and distinguish between various security topologies.
Identifying Potential Risks
This course provides an overview of how to identify and deal with general security risks associated with networking and teaches you how to identify common network attacks, explain how to prevent and stop network attacks, identify software exploitation attacks, distinguish types of viruses, and describe the dangers associated with social engineering.
Working with Infrastructure and Connectivity
This course explains how to protect a network infrastructure (the workstations, servers, cables, connections, and protocols) that make up your computer system and teaches you how to secure and monitor network infrastructure devices, secure remote access and Internet connections, describe the various types of network connectors, and employ removable storage.
Monitoring Activity and Detecting Intrusions
This course provides techniques you can use to monitor activity on your system It also covers how to detect intrusions and what steps your should take if your system has been attacked and teaches you how to list types of network traffic, identify common IDS approaches, describe the steps involved with incident response, apply security protocols to wireless networks, identify ways to secure IM products, and list techniques attackers use to identify the components of your system.
Implementing a Secure Network
This course explains how to implement a variety of protocols to secure a network It also covers strategies for keeping your network and system security software up-to-date and teaches you how to identify network security threats, define security baselines, describe how to harden a variety of protocols, list the types of updates for your operating system, and describe how to harden network devices and applications.
Securing the Network and the Environment
This course explains how to develop policies, standards, and guidelines that will help you to keep your network secure and teaches you how to determine physical access security methods, identify best practices for access control methods, conduct risk assessments and implement risk mitigation, and create organizational policies.
Cryptography Methods and Standards
This course provides an overview of how to conceal information using cryptography and teaches you how to identify basic hashing and encryption concepts, explain protocols and concepts of public key cryptography, and discuss PKI and certificate management.
Security Policies and Procedures
This course explains the processes, policies, and methods that an organization can follow to minimize the impact of a system, network, or component failure and teaches you how to explain the significance of business continuity, identify the support and services vendors can provide to an organization, discuss the importance of reliable service from utility companies as part of a disaster recovery process, describe high-availability systems and clustering, identify the various policies used to protect an organization, and define privilege management and its role in an effective security policy.
Security Administration
This course explains how to establish and maintain effective security management and teaches you how to explain the process used to educate an organization about security issues, identify resources that can help you stay current on threats and trends in the field, identify the elements of documentation needed to maintain an effective security management program, and recall security and privacy regulations that affect security management and your environment.
Practice Exams
This course presents questions that will help you prepare for the CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 exam.