Certification Prep: CompTIA Security+
Issued by
Pearson Workforce Education
This Badge recipient has demonstrated mastery (achieving a final course score of 70% or higher) to become an IT security professional and sit for and pass the CompTIA Security+ certification exam with skills necessary to identify risk and participate in risk mitigation activities; providing application, operational and information security.
Additional DetailsSkills
Earning Criteria
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Recognize common risks, vulnerabilities and controls; the triple constraint of information security; malware and attacks; common system hardware and peripherals; software, data and host security; OS hardening procedures; programming attacks
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Know secure browsing; security vulnerabilities; common network devices; secure common ports; concerns unique to cloud computing; IDS and IPS solutions; Access Control; access authorization; logical access control methods; control implementations
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Identify risk management strategies; management etc. controls; how to calculate risk; compliance audits; penetration testing and vulnerability scanning; symmetric and asymmetric encryption forms; encrypt and decrypt; security protocols
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Explain basic hashing concepts; tickets, keys and certificate authorities in a PKI; business continuity and disaster recovery objectives, timeframes; common backup rotation cycles; redundant hardware and backup sites; environmental control solutions
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Identify RAID configurations for common availability and redundancy requirements; forms of social engineering; principles of operational security.
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Identify common personnel security policies; data reminisce and secure disposal practices; common CIRT roles and responsibilities.