CompTIA Security+
Global 🌍PROCompTIA Security+ — risk quantification, access control, threats and incident response.
📏 CompTIA Security+ is scored 100–900; a scaled score of 750 or higher is required to pass.
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Beginner
Beginner skill
The threats and access-control models every security question assumes you can name.
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🔒 After lessonsThreats & Attacks
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Threat Actors, Vulnerability Classes and Indicators of Compromise
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Malware Types
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Social Engineering & Network Attacks
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🔒 After lessonsAccess Control Foundations
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Security Control Types, the Fundamentals, and Identity in Practice
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RBAC & DAC
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MAC & ABAC
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Intermediate
Intermediate skill
Quantifying risk and the cryptography concepts security architecture relies on.
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🔒 After lessonsRisk Quantification
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Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)
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Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE)
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🔒 After lessonsCryptography Concepts
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Cryptography in Practice, and Protecting Data in Every State
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Hashing vs. Encryption
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PKI & Digital Signatures
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🔒 After lessonsGovernance, Risk and Change
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Governance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme
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Advanced skill
Incident response and integrated attack/risk/access-control scenarios.
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🔒 After lessonsIncident Response
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Security Alerting, Monitoring and the Data Sources of an Investigation
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Preparation Through Containment
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Eradication Through Lessons Learned
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🔒 After lessonsApplied Security Judgement
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Architecture, Hardening and Resilience: Mitigation at the Enterprise Scale
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Improving Enterprise Capability: Automation, Orchestration and Awareness
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Advanced Threat Scenarios
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Advanced Risk Scenarios
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Syllabus coverage · CompTIA Security+
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- 1.1 Compare and contrast various types of security controlsSecurity Control Types, the Fundamentals, and Identity in Practice →
- 1.2 Summarize fundamental security conceptsSecurity Control Types, the Fundamentals, and Identity in Practice →
- 1.3 Explain the importance of change management processes and the impact to securityGovernance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme →
- 1.4 Explain the importance of using appropriate cryptographic solutionsCryptography in Practice, and Protecting Data in Every State →
- 2.1 Compare and contrast common threat actors and motivationsThreat Actors, Vulnerability Classes and Indicators of Compromise →
- 2.2 Explain common threat vectors and attack surfacesSocial Engineering & Network Attacks →Advanced Threat Scenarios →
- 2.3 Explain various types of vulnerabilitiesThreat Actors, Vulnerability Classes and Indicators of Compromise →
- 2.4 Given a scenario, analyze indicators of malicious activityThreat Actors, Vulnerability Classes and Indicators of Compromise →
- 2.5 Explain the purpose of mitigation techniques used to secure the enterpriseArchitecture, Hardening and Resilience: Mitigation at the Enterprise Scale →
- 3.1 Compare and contrast security implications of different architecture modelsArchitecture, Hardening and Resilience: Mitigation at the Enterprise Scale →
- 3.2 Given a scenario, apply security principles to secure enterprise infrastructureArchitecture, Hardening and Resilience: Mitigation at the Enterprise Scale →
- 3.3 Compare and contrast concepts and strategies to protect dataCryptography in Practice, and Protecting Data in Every State →
- 3.4 Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architectureArchitecture, Hardening and Resilience: Mitigation at the Enterprise Scale →
- 4.1 Given a scenario, apply common security techniques to computing resourcesAdvanced Risk Scenarios →
- 4.2 Explain the security implications of proper hardware, software, and data asset managementGovernance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme →
- 4.3 Explain various activities associated with vulnerability managementGovernance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme →
- 4.4 Explain security alerting and monitoring concepts and toolsSecurity Alerting, Monitoring and the Data Sources of an Investigation →
- 4.5 Given a scenario, modify enterprise capabilities to enhance securityImproving Enterprise Capability: Automation, Orchestration and Awareness →
- 4.6 Given a scenario, implement and maintain identity and access managementSecurity Control Types, the Fundamentals, and Identity in Practice →
- 4.7 Explain the importance of automation and orchestration related to secure operationsImproving Enterprise Capability: Automation, Orchestration and Awareness →
- 4.8 Explain appropriate incident response activitiesPreparation Through Containment →Eradication Through Lessons Learned →
- 4.9 Given a scenario, use data sources to support an investigationSecurity Alerting, Monitoring and the Data Sources of an Investigation →
- 5.1 Summarize elements of effective security governanceGovernance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme →
- 5.2 Explain elements of the risk management processAdvanced Risk Scenarios →
- 5.3 Explain the processes associated with third-party risk assessment and managementAdvanced Risk Scenarios →
- 5.4 Summarize elements of effective security complianceGovernance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme →
- 5.5 Explain types and purposes of audits and assessmentsGovernance, Compliance, Assets and Change: the Documents that Carry the Security Programme →
- 5.6 Given a scenario, implement security awareness practicesImproving Enterprise Capability: Automation, Orchestration and Awareness →
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