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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Professional Curricula     Internet and Network Technologies Solution Area     Security Solutions     CompTIA CASP+ (CAS-004)
Recognizing threats and managing risk are key to hardening an organization's security posture. In this course, you'll explore how to apply risk management frameworks to assess and mitigate risk, as well as how to identify threat actors and physical risks. Next, you'll learn how to mitigate risks related to human resources and social engineering techniques. You'll then move on to examine how to work with qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. Lastly, you'll learn about insider threats, supply chain dependencies, and sources of threat intelligence. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

Objectives

CompTIA CASP+ (CAS-004): Assessing & Managing Risk

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • recognize factors that influence conducting a risk assessment as part of risk management
  • recognize how to apply risk management frameworks
  • identify various types of threat actors
  • recognize physical risks
  • take steps to minimize HR risks
  • recognize how deception techniques are used by attackers
  • analyze e-mail messages to identify phishing attempts
  • perform a quantitative risk analysis
  • perform a qualitative risk analysis
  • correlate security solutions to security requirements
  • describe how IT security must apply to internal networks
  • determine how to reduce the risk related to third-party dependency chains
  • identify multiple sources of threat intelligence
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course