CompTIA Security + Course Overview
CompTIA Security + is a global certification that validates the baseline skills necessary to perform core security functions and pursue an IT security career. Gaining a CompTIA Security+ certification demonstrates your knowledge of industry-wide information assurance topics, like systems security, network infrastructure, access control, assessments and audits, cryptography, and organizational security.
Why is it different?
More choose Security+
chosen by more corporations and defense organizations than any other certification on the market to validate baseline security skills and for fulfilling the DoD 8570 compliance.
Security+ proves hands-on skills
The only baseline cybersecurity certification emphasizing hands-on practical skills, ensuring the security professional is better prepared to problem solve a wider variety of today’s complex issues.
More job roles turn to Security+ to supplement skills
baseline cybersecurity skills are applicable across more of today’s job roles to secure systems, software and hardware.
Security+ is aligned to the latest trends and techniques
Covering the most core technical skills in risk assessment and management, incident response, forensics, enterprise networks, hybrid/cloud operations, and security controls, ensuring high-performance on the job.
Who takes this program?
Individuals whose job responsibilities include securing network services, devices, and data confidentiality/privacy in your organization and individuals who are preparing for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam.
Course Objectives
- 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
