CompTIA study materials
Training participants will receive access to study
materials for a period of 12 months, including access to a virtual environment
where they can repeatedly go through the individual labs.
Course outline
1. Fundamentals of security
- Information security lifecycle
- Basics of security policies
- Authentication methods
- Fundamentals of cryptography
2. Security threats and vulnerabilities
- Social engineering
- Physical access threats
- Network environment threats
- Risks and vulnerabilities of wireless networks
- Risks from poorly programmed applications
3. Network security
- Overview of network devices from a security perspective
- Network security concept
- Demonstrations of network attacks
- Securing regular network traffic
- Securing wireless network infrastructure
4. Application, data, and component security
- Basic rules for securing workstations
- Basic rules for securing servers
- Data protection
- Mobile device security
- Application security options
5. Identity and access management
- Types of authentication
- Smart cards and tokens
- Group strategies
- Access management using ACL
- RADIUS server and 802.1x
- VLAN Management
- VPN access management
- WPA1/2 Enterprise
6. PKI and certificate management
- PKI concept
- Certificate usage options
- Installation of an enterprise certification authority and template
management
- Backup and recovery of the certification authority
- Automatic vs. manual certificate issuance
- Management and backup of private keys
7. Security monitoring
- OS auditing
- Network auditing
- IDS/IPS
- Honeypots
- Antivirus systems
8. Ensuring availability, business continuity, and incident response
- Basic concepts of business continuity
- SLA
- High availability
- Backup and recovery
- Actions to take in case of a security breach
