CompTIA Security+ Certification Study Guide: Exam SY0-201 3E

by Ido Dubrawsky

CompTIA Security+ Certification Study Exam SYO-201, Third Edition, offers a practical guide for those interested in pursuing CompTIA Security+ certification. The book is organized into six parts. Part 1 deals with general security issues including security threats; hardware and peripheral security risks; the fundamentals of operating system (OS) hardening; implementing system security applications; and concepts of virtualization. Part 2 discusses the fundamentals of network security. Part 3 focuses on network access and network authentication. Part 4 explains the importance of risk assessments and risk mitigation, and how to conduct them. Part 5 reviews general cryptographic concepts and addresses the complex issues involved in planning a certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI). Part 6 on organizational security discusses redundancy planning; environmental controls; implementing disaster recovery and incident response procedures; and the policies, procedures, and documentation upon which organizational computer security is based. Each chapter begins with Exam Objectives and concludes with Self-Test questions along with their corresponding answers.

784 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2009

Reviews

[William West · Rating 2 out of 5]

Additional review material for Security+ 2008. Geared for those already familiar with network security techniques and procedures. Not as descriptive nor as detailed as Ciampa's book, but a good supplement. The practice tests on the accompanying disks are ridiculously easy and should NOT be an indicator of how you would do on the actual exam. I would keep Ciampa's book on my reference bookshelf, this book, I would not. It did what it was designed to do, supplement material I already knew for the exam.