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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

By : Mark Birch
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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

4.6 (64)
By: Mark Birch

Overview of this book

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) ensures that security practitioners stay on top of the ever-changing security landscape. The CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the CompTIA CAS-004 exam so you can take it with confidence, fully equipped to pass on the first attempt. Written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment questions, exam tips, and mock exams with detailed explanations, this book covers security architecture, security operations, security engineering, cryptography, governance, risk, and compliance. You'll begin by developing the skills to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise. Moving on, you'll discover how to monitor and detect security incidents, implement incident response, and use automation to proactively support ongoing security operations. The book also shows you how to apply security practices in the cloud, on-premises, to endpoints, and to mobile infrastructure. Finally, you'll understand the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements throughout the enterprise. By the end of this CASP study guide, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 certification exam and have a handy reference guide.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1: Security Architecture
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Section 2: Security Operations
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Section 3: Security Engineering and Cryptography
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Section 4: Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Assessing inherently vulnerable systems and applications

A good example of where we have inherent vulnerabilities would be when considering critical infrastructure. Many power plants and other such industries may rely on technology that was developed and installed decades ago. The main criteria were about reliability and availability, not security. This has proven to be the case with fresh attacks on critical infrastructure being a weekly occurrence. Applications used in these industries may also lack security controls, with the main goal being reliability. When we consider web application servers, there are always inherent risks due to the hosting of public-facing applications and services. We will now consider some of these issues.

Client-side processing and server-side processing

Client-side processing runs on the client and server-side runs on the server. Client-side processing is performed using dynamic runtime code – it is not compiled into binary files. Server-side...

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