IT Skills     Security     Security Accreditations and Best Practice     CompTIA Security+ SY0-501

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There are always new emerging threats and other exploits on the horizon. This course examines the status quo in security threats, recognizing threat actors and their attributes, and will prepare the learner for the Security+ SY0-501 exam.

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Objectives

The Threat Landscape start the course describe the threat landscape Basic Security Terms describe risks and vulnerabilities define threats, threat agents, exploits, and payloads define countermeasures and mitigation describe IOCs Threat Actors describe script kiddies and hacktivists compare organized crime, states, and APTs describe insider and competitor threats Attributes of Threat Actors compare internal and external threats compare structured and unstructured threats define levels of sophistication, resources, and funding of threats recognize threat intent and motivation describe different open-source intelligence in threats identify different malware threats Practice: The Threat Landscape and Agents define and describe the threat landscape and agents