CompTIA Security+ (including exam)

What delegates will gain/ learning outcomes

• Identify various types of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities, including malware, social engineering, and application attacks.
• Utilize security technologies and tools, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and endpoint security, to protect systems.
• Design secure network architectures, implement secure systems, and apply secure protocols for architecture and design.
• Manage identity and access concepts, including authentication, authorization, and accounting, to ensure secure access control.
• Assess and manage risk through risk analysis, mitigation strategies, and business continuity planning.
• Apply cryptography concepts, including encryption algorithms, public key infrastructure (PKI), and digital signatures, to secure data.
• Implement compliance and operational security measures, including security policies, procedures, and best practice

Programme Outline (including objectives)

• Security controls: comparing technical, preventive, managerial, deterrent, operational, detective, physical, corrective, compensating, and directive controls.
• Fundamental concepts: summarizing confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA); non-repudiation; authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); zero trust; and deception/disruption technology.
• Change management: explaining business processes, technical implications, documentation, and version control.
• Cryptographic solutions: using public key infrastructure (PKI), encryption, obfuscation, hashing, digital signatures, and blockchain.
• Threat actors and motivations: comparing nation-states, unskilled attackers, hacktivists, insider threats, organized crime, shadow IT, and motivations like data exfiltration, espionage, and financial gain.
• Threat vectors and attack surfaces: explaining message-based, unsecure networks, social engineering, file-based, voice call, supply chain, and vulnerable software vectors.
• Vulnerabilities: explaining application, hardware, mobile device, virtualization, operating system (OS)-based, cloud-specific, web-based, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Malicious activity: analysing malware attacks, password attacks, application attacks, physical attacks, network attacks, and cryptographic attacks.
• Mitigation techniques: using segmentation, access control, configuration enforcement, hardening, isolation, and patching.
• Architecture models: comparing on-premises, cloud, virtualization, Internet of Things (IoT), industrial control systems (ICS), and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Enterprise infrastructure: applying security principles to infrastructure considerations, control selection, and secure communication/access.
• Data protection: comparing data types, securing methods, general considerations, and classifications.
• Resilience and recovery: explaining high availability, site considerations, testing, power, platform diversity, backups, and continuity of operations
• Computing resources: applying secure baselines, mobile solutions, hardening, wireless security, application security, sandboxing, and monitoring.
• Asset management: explaining acquisition, disposal, assignment, and monitoring/tracking of hardware, software, and data assets.
• Vulnerability management: identifying, analysing, remediating, validating, and reporting vulnerabilities.
• Alerting and monitoring: explaining monitoring tools and computing resource activities.
• Enterprise security: modifying firewalls, IDS/IPS, DNS filtering, DLP (data loss prevention), NAC (network access control), and EDR/XDR (endpoint/extended detection and response).
• Identity and access management: implementing provisioning, SSO (single sign-on), MFA (multifactor authentication), and privileged access tools.
• Automation and orchestration: explaining automation use cases, scripting benefits, and considerations.
• Incident response: implementing processes, training, testing, root cause analysis, threat hunting, and digital forensics.
• Data sources: using log data and other sources to support investigations.
• Security governance: summarizing guidelines, policies, standards, procedures, external considerations, monitoring, governance structures, and roles/responsibilities.
• Risk management: explaining risk identification, assessment, analysis, register, tolerance, appetite, strategies, reporting, and business impact analysis (BIA).
• Third-party risk: managing vendor assessment, selection, agreements, monitoring, questionnaires, and rules of engagement.
• Security compliance: summarizing compliance reporting, consequences of non-compliance, monitoring, and privacy.
• Audits and assessments: explaining attestation, internal/external audits, and penetration testing.
• Security awareness: implementing phishing training, anomalous behaviour recognition, user guidance, reporting, and monitoring.

Method of delivery Virtual classroom
Programme agenda / timings Delegates must be committed to attending all 5 days of this programme. This will be an interactive session with scheduled breaks.

Whilst there is no cost to this training to the delegate or organisation, this training has been funded by NHS England Cyber Improvement Programme who will be monitoring the completion rates of the programme.

Additional Notes
An exam voucher will be provided with this course and delegates can book their exam data with a virtual exam centre. We encourage delegates to take their exam as this will not only consolidate their learning but also proof their competence to their employers.