Lunux Shell Script Lab

Course overview

Welcome to the TOTAL: CompTIA Security+ Certification (SY0-601), a course from the production studios of Total Seminars with subject matter experts Mike Meyers and Dan Lachance.

This course covers everything you need to know to pass your CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) certification exam. With over 17 hours of in-depth and fascinating content and 125 video lectures, this course will not only make you a good IT security tech, but make sure you are ready to pass the CompTIA Security+ exam. Mike Meyers is the President of Total Seminars and well known as the "Alpha Geek". Mike is widely known at the #1 CompTIA author and instructor with over 1 million books in print. Dan Lachance is a highly motivated and passionate IT evangelist. He is a consultant, trainer, and author with over 20 years of experience in the IT security industry.

This course shows you how to:

• Apply the three “A’s” of security: authentication, authorization, and accounting

• Scan your wired or wireless network and assess it for various weaknesses

• Use cryptography to assure integrity of data through hashing and confidentiality of data through symmetric/asymmetric cryptosystems and public key infrastructure (PKI)

• Understand critical concepts in risk management, like setting up alerts, responding to incidents, and mitigating vulnerabilities

• Identify how hackers are trying to get into your network, IT infrastructure, and physical assets and how security techs help prevent those breaches

• Prevent attacks ranging from simple malware to sophisticated exploits to social engineering that takes advantage of people’s trust, relationships, and lack of knowledge

• Apply the techniques used in penetration testing, including passive and active reconnaissance

• Secure an enterprise environment, including creating incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery plans

The course also includes:

• Hands-on Labs. You get a handout with the lab and Dan walks you through the lab so you can practice what you learned in the Chapter.

• Practice Test Question Walkthrough: Dan selects some practice on content for each Chapter and goes over some practice questions, showing you how to think about answering the questions, plus the right and wrong answers.

• Ask-me-Anything (AMA) Q&As: Students ask questions on the content for each Chapter and Mike and Dan answer them giving you additional explanations on some commonly asked about topics.