CompTIA Security+
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Target Audience
IT professionals who have networking and administrative skills.
Course Duration
35 hours / 5 days exclude examination hours
Assessment
Participants are required to sit for 1 core examination (SYO-201).
Course Outline
General Security Concepts
- Recognize and be able to differentiate and explain the different access control models and methods of authentication.
- Identify non-essential services and protocols and know what actions to take to reduce the risks of those services and protocols
- Recognize the following attacks and specify the appropriate actions to take to mitigate vulnerability and risk
- Recognize the different types of malicious code and specify the appropriate actions to take to mitigate vulnerability and risk
- Understand the concept of and know how reduce the risks of social engineering
- Understand the concept and significance of auditing, logging and system scanningCommunication Security
- Recognize and understand the administration of different types of remote access technologies, email security concepts, Internet security concepts, directory security concepts, file transfer protocols and concepts and different wireless technologies and concepts.
Infrastructure Security
- Understand security concerns and concepts of the different types of devices, media and Security Topologies.
- Differentiate the different types of intrusion detection, be able to explain the concepts of each type, and understand the implementation and configuration of each kind of intrusion detection system
- Understand the different concepts of Security Baselines, be able to explain what a Security Baseline is, and understand the implementation and configuration of each kind of intrusion detection system
Basics of Cryptography
- Be able to identify and explain the of the different kinds of cryptographic algorithms
- Understand how cryptography addresses the different security concepts
- Understand and be able to explain the different concepts of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
- Identify and be able to differentiate different cryptographic standards and protocols
- Understand and be able to explain the different concepts of Key Management and Certificate Lifecycles
Operational / Organizational Security
- Understand the application of the different concepts of physical security
- Understand the security implications of the different topics of disaster recovery and business continuity
- Understand the concepts and uses of the different types of policies and procedures
- Explain the different concepts of privilege management
- Understand the concepts of different topics of forensics
- Understand the security relevance of the education and training of end users, executives and human resources
- Understand and explain the different documentation concepts related security
Pre-requisites
Security Basics
Course Location
NTUC Trade Union House
73 Bras Basah Road
#02-01
Singapore 189556
Methodology
Instructor led course