CompTIA Security+ Certification (Web-based)
CBT offers a Web-based course through Gatlin Education to help students prepare for this IT Industry certification. Click through for pricing and more detailed information.
CBT also offers the CIW Security Professional Series Bundle, which prepares you for the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) Security Certification Exam. The CIW Security Exam and CompTIA Security+ have similar content.
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CompTIA Security+ Certification
Course Description
This course examines how a security professional implements security policy, identifies security threats, and develops countermeasures using firewall systems and attack-recognition technologies.
This Course/Exam is targeted at professionals with networking experience and possess a thorough knowledge of TCP/IP. Those holding these certifications have demonstrated the aptitude and ability to master such knowledge areas as: general security concepts, communications security, infrastructure security, basics of cryptography, and operational/organizational security.
Skills Measured
This course examines and covers the following topics: implementing security policy, identify security threats, develops countermeasures using firewall systems and attack-recognition technologies, and managing the deployment of e-business transaction and payment security solutions.
Skills measured in these exams include but are not limited to:
- Network perimeter security and elements of an effective security policy.
- Encryption, including the three main encryption methods used in internetworking.
- Universal guidelines and principles for effective network security, as well as guidelines to create effective specific solutions.
- Security principles and security attack identification.
- Firewall types and common firewall terminology.
- Firewall system planning including levels of protection.
- Network firewall deployment.
- Network security including industry security evaluation criteria and guidelines used to determine three security levels.
- Mechanisms used to implement security systems, tools to evaluate key security parameters, techniques for security accounts, and threats to Windows 2000 and UNIX systems.
- Permissions identification, assignment and usage, system defaults, and security commands.
- System patches and fixes including application of system patches.
- Windows 2000 Registry modifications, including lockdown and removal of services for effective security in Windows 2000 and Linux.
- Security auditing principles, security auditor's chief duties and network risk factor assessment.
- Security auditing and discovery processes, audit plans, and network-based and host-based discovery software.
- Penetration strategies and methods, including identification of potential attacks.
- User activities baseline, log analysis, and auditing of various activities.
- Security policy compliance and assessment reports.
- Operating system add-ons, including personal firewalls and native auditing.
- Identifying threats to, and protecting wireless networks
Prerequisites
It is recommended that the students for this course have the knowledge and skills equivalent of the CompTIA Network+ certification.
Other Certifications or equivalent Knowledge which would be beneficial:
CIW Foundations Certification
Cisco CCNA
CompTIA's A+ Certification
Microsoft MCP, MCSA, or MCSE
This course is designed to prepare candidates for the CompTIA Security+ exam.
This course can be used as an MCSA and MCSE elective. Visit CBT's Microsoft's Certification page for more details
This course also prepares the candidate for the CIW Security Analyst Exam
Industry Acceptance
CompTIA's Security+ certification is widely recognized in the industry.
CompTIA Security+
Olympus Security Group requires Security+ for all of their consultants along with a growing number of companies and agencies, including:
- Sun Microsystems
- IBM/Tivoli Software Group
- Symantec
- Motorola.
- Microsoft
Security+ News Releases
CompTIA Security+ Added to IBM�€™s Advanced Security Management Professional Certification
Symantec Joins CompTIA Security+ Certification Advisory Committee
CompTIA Security+ Ranked number one entry level security certification
Two Leading Security Organizations Equate CompTIA Security+�"� to a Year on the Job for Security
Microsoft Integrates CompTIA�€™s Security+ into New MCSA and MCSE Security Certifications
Get your career on the fast track with CompTIA's Security+ certification and establish your credibility as a Security professional.
