About CompTIA Security+

CompTIA is a not-for-profit trade association with the purpose of advancing the interests of IT professionals and IT channel organizations and its industry-leading IT certifications are an important part of that mission

• CompTIA's Security+ certification is a foundation-level certificate designed for IT administrators with two years' experience whose job role is focused on system security

• The CompTIA Security+ exam will certify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to assist with cybersecurity duties in small and large organizations

  • These duties include assessments and monitoring; secure network, host, app, and cloud provisioning; data governance; and incident analysis and response

• Security+ is compliant with ISO 17024 standards and approved by the US DoD to meet directive 8140/8570.01-M requirements

  • Regulators and government rely on ANSI accreditation because it provides confidence and trust in the outputs of an accredited program

Upon Course Completion

On course completion, you will be able to:

• Compare security roles and security controls

• Explain threat actors and threat intelligence

• Perform security assessments and identify social engineering attacks and malware types

• Summarize basic cryptographic concepts and implement public key infrastructure

• Implement authentication controls

• Implement identity and account management controls

• Implement secure network designs, network security appliances, and secure network protocols Implement host, embedded/Internet of Things, and mobile security solutions

• Implement secure cloud solutions

• Explain data privacy and protection concepts

• Perform incident response and digital forensics

• Summarize risk management concepts and implement cybersecurity resilience

• Explain physical security

Prerequisites

• To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic Windows and Linux administrator skills and the ability to implement fundamental networking appliances and IP-addressing concepts

• CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications, or equivalent knowledge, and six to nine months of experience in networking, including configuring security parameters, are strongly recommended