CompTIA Security

CompTIA or the Computing Technology Industry Association is a non-profit trade association based in America. It issues vendor-neutral professional certifications in more than 120 nations across the globe for the IT Industry.

CompTIA was created in 1982 and it releases more than 50 industry studies per year in order to keep a track of the industry trends and the corresponding changes. To date, over 2.2 million people have earned CompTIA certifications since the association was established.

As mentioned earlier, CompTIA provides a number of valuable certifications that range from entry-level to expert-level, out of which, the CompTIA Security+ certification is designed for the cybersecurity industry.

Course Syllabus:

• Lesson 01 - Risk Management
•  Introduction
•  The CIA of Security
•  Threat Actors
•  What is Risk
•  Managing Risk
•  Using Guides for Risk Assessment
•  Security Controls
•  Interesting Security Controls
•  Defense in Depth
•  IT Security Governance
•  Security Policies
•  Frameworks
•  Quantitative Risk Calculations
•  Business Impact Analysis
•  Organizing Data
•  Security Training
•  Third-Party Agreements
• Lesson 02 - Cryptography
• Lesson 03 - Identity and Access Management
• Lesson 04 - Tools of the Trade
• Lesson 05 - Securing Individual Systems
• Lesson 06 - The Basic LAN
• Lesson 07 - Beyond the Basic LAN
• Lesson 08 - Secure Protocols
• Lesson 09 - Testing Your Infrastructure
• Lesson 10 - Dealing with Incidents