Basic: Network+

This track contains Network+ content.

16 Courses | 29h 33m 15s

Intermediate: Cloud+

This track contains Cloud+ content.

20 Courses | 25h 11m 12s
1 Lab | 28h 45m

Intermediate: Security+

This track contains Security+ content.

20 Courses | 12h 28m 8s
1 Lab | 17h

Advanced: CASP+

This track contains CASP+ content.

14 Courses | 16h 27m 29s

Advanced: CCNA

This track contains CCNA content.

31 Courses | 30h 34m 41s
1 Lab | 21h

COURSES INCLUDED

CompTIA Network+: OSI Model Layers & Data Encapsulation

The Open Systems Interconnection, or OSI, model is used to describe how computer systems communicate with each other. Frequently used for troubleshooting network problems, the seven layers of the OSI model are concepts with which all networking professionals should be familiar In this course, you'll learn about each layer of the OSI model. You'll outline how human-readable information, such as emails and chat messages, are transferred over a network, as well as the path this information takes along the OSI model. You'll also examine data encapsulation and decapsulation within the context of the OSI model. You'll outline characteristics for Ethernet headers, IP headers, and TCP/UDP headers, and learn to differentiate between synchronization (SYN) and acknowledgement (ACK) flags. Lastly, you'll recognize the primary differences between maximum transmission unit, or MTU, and maximum segment size, or MSS, and how these concepts relate to data being transmitted over a network.

14 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Network Types

Network topologies represent how computers are interconnected to form a network. There are five main network topology types - mesh, star, bus, ring, and hybrid - and each offers unique advantages and disadvantages that technicians need to be aware of. In this course, you'll explore the five topologies in detail and learn when to implement each. You'll learn about computer networks such as local area networks, metropolitan area networks, and wide area networks. Next, you explore other computer network types including peer-to-peer, client/server, wireless local area network, personal area network, and campus area network. You'll examine Multiprotocol Label Switching and how it can be used as an efficient alternative to traditional Internet Protocol routing. Lastly, you'll learn about common service related entry points, virtual networking concepts, and the common network provider links such as satellite, digital subscriber line, cable, leased line, and metro-optical

17 videos | 1h 51m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Cables & Connectors

Networking cables and connectors are network hardware components that allow devices to connect and communicate with each other. Different types of network cables exist, each offering different standards, limitations, and speeds. In addition to connecting devices, network cables and connectors are essential for transferring data and information between computers, routers, switches, and storage area networks. In this course, you'll examine common network cabling implementations such as copper and fiber. You'll discover how to differentiate between the different cable types, including twisted pair, coaxial, and twinaxial. You'll also explore the many different connector and transceiver types and learn common cable management responsibilities including working with patch panels and punchdown blocks. Finally, you'll learn how to differentiate between 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, 10GBASE-T, and 40GBASE-T copper Ethernet standards, as well as the 100BASE-FX, 100BASE-SX, 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, 10GBASE-SR, and 10GBASE-LR fiber Ethernet standards. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam

10 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: IP Addressing Schemes and Subnetting

Computers and devices each require a unique identifier, known as an IP address, in order to participate on an IP network. Using a subnet mask, the IP address is divided into a network portion and a host portion. This practice is called subnetting and it allows for an IP network to be logically subdivided or segmented. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of public and private IP addresses and how to use Network Address Translation and Port Address Translation to translate addresses. Next, you'll examine the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, as well as various types of addresses including unicast, multicast, and anycast. You'll learn the basics of base-2 conversions and binary values and examine classes A, B, C, D, and E, which respectively allow you to portion a network into various different sizes. Finally, you'll learn about supernetting, a more advanced form of subnetting, as well as IPv6 concepts, subinterfaces, and virtual IP addresses

18 videos | 2h 35m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Well-known Ports & Protocols

In terms of computer networks, protocols are used to provide a required set of rules that enable computers to exchange information. Well-known Internet protocols include Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Ports, by comparison, are used to identify a type of network or specific process. Port numbers, ranging from 0 to 65535, are typically divided into three categories - well-known ports, dynamic ports, and registered ports. In this course, you'll learn about the most commonly-known ports in use on a computer network today. These include File Transfer Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Domain Name System, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol. You'll examine how HTTP uses the reserved port 80 and enables computers to send and receive Web client-based communication and messages from a Web server, including web site pages and data. Next, you'll explore other key ports including, port 25, reserved for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and how SMTP allows e-mail clients and services to send out e-mails. You'll learn how port 100, reserved for Post Office Protocol v3 and port 143, reserved for Internet Message Access Protocol, allow for e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. Lastly, you'll learn about Secure Sockets Layer and how it can be incorporated into POP3 and IMAP implementations to enable more secure encrypted e-mail communications

23 videos | 2h 39m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Registered Ports

With a range from 0 to 65535 split across three groups (those reserved for TCP/IP applications, registered ports, and dynamic ports), differentiating port numbers can be confusing. In this course, you'll learn how to identify and use the most common registered ports You'll examine port 1433, reserved for Structured Query Language (SQL) Server and when to use SQLnet port 1521, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port 3306, and port 5060/5061, reserved for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). You'll then outline how IP protocols are used to facilitate Internet Protocol (IP) communication, such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), and Gateway Routing Encapsulation (GRE). Lastly, you'll examine connectionless and connection-oriented services, two data transmission services used to establish and terminate connections, exploring how they behave at the network and transport layers of the OSI model.

9 videos | 50m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Network Services & Data Center Architectures

All computers and network devices require an IP address to be able to connect to the Internet or other IP devices on an organizational network. In this course, you'll learn about the fundamentals of both DHCP and DNS and how DHCP can help automate the configuration of devices on an IP network. You'll explore start of authority records as well as the various DNS record types used to handle requests and translate domain names into IP addresses. You'll then review key characteristics of both the Network Time Protocol and IP Address Management. Next, you'll examine basic corporate and data center architectures, and common architectures such as three-tiered, spine and leaf. You'll learn key characteristics of software-defined networking and explore the storage area network and common connections types that include fiber channel, fiber channel over Ethernet, Internet small computer, and Systems Interface. Lastly, you'll learn about colocations and the benefits and solutions these data centers can offer. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam

16 videos | 1h 38m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Cloud Concepts

Cloud networking is a type of Internet-based network solution that makes resources available to network users via a central, third-party platform that is typically hosted online. In this course, you'll learn about cloud deployment and service models, and explore how to select the appropriate solution depending on your organizational needs. In addition to SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, you'll explore the benefits of using the desktop as a service software technology. You'll also learn about the relationship between local and cloud resources, as well as relevant security implications and considerations. You'll also examine how multitenancy allows multiple customers of the same cloud vendor to use the same computing resources. Finally, you will explore the effects of elasticity on cloud computing, with a focus on one of the main features of cloud computing, the ability to increase or decrease (scale) the size or power of a cloud solution. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

18 videos | 1h 56m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Network Implementations

Networking devices are instrumental to the delivery of data over a network. In this course, you'll learn about comparing and contrasting various networking devices to determine when and where to use them on a network. You'll also explore common networking devices such as hubs, switches, and routers in addition to network appliances used for more specialized tasks such as the Intrusion prevention system, intrusion detection system, proxy servers, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems. You'll also examine different routing technologies, including dynamic routing concepts and protocols. And you'll explore how to recognize the key differences between the Routing Information Protocol and Open Shortest Path First routing protocols, and recognize how to differentiate between link state, distance vector, and hybrid routing protocols. Lastly, you'll learn about bandwidth management concepts including traffic shaping and quality of service. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam

16 videos | 1h 55m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Ethernet Switching & Wireless Standards

Ethernet switching enables devices such as computers and printers to communicate seamlessly with each other on the same network. In this course, you'll learn about key switching features. You'll also explore different port configurations, how Address Resolution Protocol works, and examine key features of the Neighbor Discovery Protocol. You'll also explore how to install and configure the appropriate wireless technologies and standards and learn how to differentiate between 802.11 standards, and recognize when to implement 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless frequencies. You'll also learn when to deploy a service set identifier as well as basic service sets, the extended service set, independent basic service set (Ad-hoc) and roaming. Lastly, you'll learn about wireless encryption standards, cellular technologies, and multiple-input multiple-output, and multi-user MIMO. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

20 videos | 2h 10m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Network Operations

The goal of network operations is typically to monitor, manage, and respond to network-related incidents to ensure a network's overall availability and performance is not compromised. In this course, you'll learn about statistics and sensors available to ensure network availability. You'll explore the Simple Network Management Protocol and how it works, and examine using network device logs. You'll also learn about interface statistics, errors, and alerts, as well as environmental factors and sensors that relate to temperature, humidity, electrical, and flooding. You'll then learn about organizational documents and policies, and learn how to plan for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Lastly, you'll explore hardening and security policy planning strategies, and common documentation every organization should maintain. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

15 videos | 1h 30m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Disaster Recovery & High Availability Concepts

Disaster recovery and high availability are areas of security planning that involve tools, policies, and procedures that ensure the availability and recovery of critical services and infrastructure in the event of a human-induced or natural disaster. In this course, you'll explore high availability and disaster recovery concepts such as load balancing, multipathing, and network interface card teaming. You'll learn about facilities and infrastructure support concepts including uninterruptible power supply, power distribution units, generators, HVAC, and fire suppression. Lastly, you'll explore redundancy and high availability concepts including cold, warm, and hot sites, as well as network device backup and restore states and configurations. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

9 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Security Concepts & Threats

Network security encompasses best practices and policies that are put in place to help monitor and prevent malicious attacks against both internal and external threats. In this course, you'll learn about the confidentiality, integrity, and availability triad and other common security concepts. You'll explore well-known threats, both internal and external, as well as common vulnerabilities and newly discovered software vulnerabilities. Next, you'll examine authentication methods and how to perform security assessments. You'll also examine common attacks, with a focus on technology-based attacks, and learn to differentiate between denial of service, distributed denial of service and Botnet/command and control attacks. You'll further explore how to prevent and remove ransomware and malware. Lastly, you'll learn about human and environmental attacks, such as social engineering, and how to differentiate between different social engineering attacks. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

20 videos | 2h 5m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Physical Security & Network Hardening

Network security is the practice of protecting and preventing unwelcome access attempts to computer networks. In this course, you'll learn about network hardening techniques and best practices. You'll learn to secure networks and about wireless authentication and authorization features You'll examine remote access methods and security considerations, VPN solutions, and the benefits of using virtual network computing and virtual desktop solutions. You'll learn about remote authentication and authorization considerations and how to implement out-of-band management.

22 videos | 2h 18m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Network Troubleshooting Methodologies & Tools

If an incident or outage occurs, network administrators must be able to respond effectively and resolve network problems in a timely fashion. In this course, you'll learn about best practices for identifying a problem, establishing a theory of probable cause, testing theories, formulating a plan of action to resolve a problem, implementing a solution, or escalating the issue. You'll explore how to verify full system functionality and document findings, actions, outcomes, and lessons learned. You'll examine how to troubleshoot common cable connectivity issues and explore network specifications and limitations, cable considerations, and common issues such as attenuation, interference, bad ports, and duplexing issues. Lastly, you'll learn about common cable connectivity tools including cable crimpers, punchdown tools, tone generators, loopback adapters, and cable testers. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

20 videos | 1h 59m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Network+: Troubleshooting Network Issues

Troubleshooting network connectivity is a complex responsibility that can require various approaches and techniques in order to resolve issues. In this course, you'll learn about using the appropriate network troubleshooting software tools and commands. You'll explore software tools such as Wi-Fi analyzers and port scanners and learn about traditional command line tools and network platform commands. You'll also examine how to troubleshoot common wireless connectivity issues including issues relating to specifications and limitations. Next, you'll learn about common considerations and issues pertaining to wireless connectivity. You'll explore general network troubleshooting best practices as they relate to wired networks. Finally, you'll examine considerations such as routing tables, VLAN assignment, and other common issues. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam

23 videos | 2h 44m Assessment Badge

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CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Architecture & Models

The cloud has various deployment and service models that can help your organization design and create your very own cloud strategy based on needs. First, you'll learn about the available cloud deployment models such as public, private, hybrid, community, and virtual public clouds, as well as multi-cloud and multitenancy environments. Next, you'll examine cloud service models such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Finally, you'll learn about advanced topics such as the Internet of Things, serverless computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the shared responsibility model. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Capacity Planning

Capacity planning is an important factor to consider when creating a Cloud Strategy. This course will describe the important factors to consider when performing capacity planning. First, you will learn about the technical and business factors to consider when performing capacity planning. Next, you will learn about using standard templates, licensing considerations, user density and system load. You then learn how to use captured metrics to perform trend analysis and how to do performance capacity planning. Finally, you'll learn how to create a cloud-based database and how cloud features can be scaled to meet capacity demands. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+ : Cloud High Availability & Scaling

High availability of cloud systems and resources is extremely important to ensure that a system is there when you need it. Cloud environments have many options and features to ensure that the goal of high availability is achieved. First, you will learn the concepts of affinity and anti-affinity and how it related to hypervisors. Next, you will learn about the benefits of oversubscription of compute, network and storage resources, using regions and zones, cloud applications, and using containers in the cloud environment. Next, you will learn how to configure network resources such as switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls for high availability. Finally, you will learn about using cloud clusters, identifying single points of failure, and the benefits of using auto-scaling, horizontal scaling, vertical scaling and cloud bursting. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Solution Design

Developing new software systems can be costly and time consuming. Cloud-based solutions can help get your system online quickly and cost-effectively and help to meet all your business requirements. In this course, you'll learn how to analyze the cloud solution design in support of business requirements. First, you'll explore how to analyze the solution design while considering requirements for software, hardware, system integration, security, network, disaster recovery, budgeting, service level agreements, and compliance. Next, you'll learn about the benefits of using multiple environments for development, quality assurance, staging, and production. You'll also examine the advantages of performing blue-green deployments. Finally, you'll learn about software development testing techniques such as performance, regression, functional, usability, vulnerability, and penetration testing. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Identity & Access Management

Identity and access management is crucial to securing resources and ensuring the resources are used by the correct people. In this course, you'll learn about some of the security resources that are available for performing and enforcing identity and access management. First, you'll examine identity and access management, including user identification, authorization, and privileged access management. You'll learn how to use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to manage access to resources. Next, you'll explore how identity federation can be used to manage user identities and how certificate management can be performed using certificate authorities, registration authorities, certificate databases, certificate stores, and key archival servers. You'll then move on to learn about multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, Public Key Infrastructure, as well as secret and key management. Finally, you'll learn about the components that can be used to perform incident response preparation and incident response procedures such as evidence acquisition, chain of custody, and root cause analysis. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Network Security

Having a secure cloud environment is crucial for ensuring system and data integrity and security. Cloud environments have numerous methods for meeting these security needs. In this course, you'll learn how to secure a network in a cloud environment using network segmentation, network protocols, and network services. Next, you'll learn how to monitor the security of a network environment using log and event monitoring and how to harden the network environment. Then, you'll move on to examine the available network security tools that can be used to perform network penetration tests, such as vulnerability scanners and port scanners. You'll also explore how to use these security tools to perform vulnerability assessments. Finally, you'll learn about the purpose of a risk register and how to prioritize the deployment and installation of security patches. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

13 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Security Controls

Ensuring the security of your operating systems and applications is a key component of keeping your cloud environment secure. There are several key steps that can be taken to ensure your cloud system is secure. In this course, you will learn about cloud security policies and managing cloud user permissions. Next, you will learn about anti-virus and anti-malware tools, firewalls, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention tools that can be used to detect and prevent cybersecurity attacks. Next, you will learn about hardening your cloud environment and using encryption to increase data security. Finally, you will learn about configuration management and how to monitor the system and event logs. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Data Security & Compliance Controls

There may be several ramifications for failing to secure your organization's data in the cloud environment. This could also mean failing to comply with regulatory compliances. In this course, you will learn how mandatory access controls are used to secure cloud services. First, you will learn encryption, hashing algorithms, digital signatures, the access security broker and file integrity monitoring can be used to ensure data security and regulatory compliance. Next, you will learn how data classification, network and access control can be used to secure data. Next, you will learn about data security laws and regulations and the legal requirements for securely storing data. Finally, you will learn about data loss prevention and the components of records management systems including versioning, retention, destruction and write once/read many. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Component Integration

Cloud environments provide many key components that can be incorporated into your cloud solution. In this course, you'll learn about the available cloud components. First, you'll learn about subscription services such as file, communication, e-mail, VoIP, messaging and collaboration, and the virtual desktop infrastructure, as well as directory and identity services. Next, you'll explore cloud service models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and how to provision and integrate compute, storage, and network resources for a cloud solution. Next, you'll examine how to integrate serverless applications, deploy and integrate virtual machines, and use OS and solution templates to provision and integrate resources into a cloud solution. Finally, you'll learn to integrate identity management and containers and perform autoscaling and post-deployment validation of cloud solutions. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Provisioning Cloud Storage

Storage in the cloud is a crucial component of any cloud-based solution. In this course, you'll learn about the types of cloud storage you can use in your solutions and their features. First, you'll explore how to provision and measure the performance of block, file, object, and flash storage. Next, you'll learn about the different types of RAID arrays and the purpose of user quotas. You'll then move on to examine the protocols used with cloud storage. You'll learn about the features of hyperconverged storage, hyperconverged infrastructures, and software-defined storage. Finally, you'll explore how to create and use an Azure container. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Network Deployments

Deploying cloud-based solutions efficiently and securely requires that the network be configured correctly. In this course, you'll learn about the network services that need to be considered when deploying cloud solutions. First, you'll explore the role of network services such as DHCP, DNS, CDN, IPAM, as well as VPNs. You'll learn about the features of virtual routing including dynamic and static routing. Next, you'll examine virtual network interface controllers and the features of network appliances such as load balancers, firewalls, and virtual private clouds. Finally, you'll learn about the features of virtual LANs, single root input/output virtualization, and software-defined networks. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Migrations

For a cloud-based solution to run efficiently and cost-effectively, the appropriate sizing of resources is essential. In this course, you'll learn to configure the correct compute sizing for a deployment, as well as how to perform cloud migrations. First, you'll explore the features of virtualization such as hypervisors and how to compute. Next, you'll learn about the features of and how to correctly size CPUs, vCPUs, and GPUs. You'll explore memory allocation and the features of a hyperconverged infrastructure. You'll then learn about cloud migrations such as storage migrations, database migrations, physical to virtual migrations, virtual to virtual migrations, and cloud-to-cloud migrations. Finally, you'll examine cloud migration implications for access control lists, firewalls, and vendor lock-in. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Alerting & Optimization

Logging and monitoring is essential to ensure that your cloud environment is running efficiently and securely. In this course, you will learn to configure logging, monitoring and alerting services in the cloud and optimize cloud environments. First, you will learn about the available cloud features for logging such as collectors, SNMP, syslog, audits, log types, access and authentication, and automation. Next, you will learn about the features of system monitoring such as baselines, thresholds, tagging, and performance monitoring, resource utilization, availability, and SLA-defined uptime. Next, you will learn about the features of alerting such as common messaging methods, maintenance mode and appropriate responses. Finally, you will learn how to optimize cloud resources including placement, computing, storage, networks, and device drivers and firmware. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Operations Management

Maintaining a stable cloud environment is important to ensure the health of the cloud system. In this course you will learn how to maintain efficient operation of a cloud environment. First, you will learn how to perform life cycle management, and perform change management. Next, you will learn about the configuration management database and why it is important. Next, you will learn about using dashboards and the impacts of process improvements, upgrade methods, and performance reporting. Lastly, you will learn about the options for performing patching and the types of backups and available backup objects, and to confirm the completion of backups. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 16m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Automation & Orchestration

In order for cloud environments to operate efficiently you need to use automation and orchestration to keep things running smoothly. In this course, you will learn about the components and features of cloud automation and orchestration. First, you will learn about the features of infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Next, you will learn about version control and configuration management and how it relates to orchestration and automation. Next, you will learn about the features of containers, cloud automation activities, secure scripting and orchestration sequencing. Finally, you will learn about backup and restore policies as well as backup targets. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Disaster Recovery

Planning for disaster recovery is crucial to getting your cloud solution running and operational when a crisis occurs. In this course, you'll learn about how to plan for and the features of disaster recovery. First, you'll explore disaster recovery features such as failover, failback, backup restoration, and replication. Next, you'll examine the importance of network configuration, geographical data centers, restoration methods, and on-premise and cloud sites. Finally, you'll learn about the importance of the DR kit, playbook, network diagrams, RPOs, RTOs, SLAs, and corporate guidelines when planning for disaster recovery. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Troubleshooting Methodologies

Being able to troubleshoot cloud and network issues is important when trying to resolve failures or operational difficulties. In this course, you'll learn to use troubleshooting methodologies to resolve common cloud issues. First, you'll examine how to resolve cloud related issues using the troubleshooting methodology. Next, you'll explore how to resolve network security group misconfigurations issues and network connectivity issues. You'll then move on to learn about resolving network routing and firewall connectivity issues. You'll learn about the tools that you can use to troubleshoot and resolve network issues. Finally, you'll learn resource utilization, application performance, and load balancing performance tuning. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 22m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Troubleshooting Cloud Security Issues

Being able to troubleshoot security issues is essential to ensuring fully functional systems in the cloud. In this course, you'll examine some of the common causes of security issues. First, you'll learn to troubleshoot security issues due to missing or incomplete privileges, authentication or authorization issues, or network and directory security group issues. Next, you'll explore how to troubleshoot security issues due to expired, revoked, compromised, or misconfigured keys and certificates or due to misconfigured or misapplied policies. You'll then move on to learn how to troubleshoot and identify security concerns due to unencrypted data, data breaches, misclassification of data, lack of protocol encryption, and insecure ciphers. Finally, you'll also learn to troubleshoot and identify security concerns due to exposed endpoints, misconfigured security appliances, and unsupported protocols, as well as how to deal with internal or external attacks. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Troubleshooting Cloud Deployments

Being able to troubleshoot issues during the deployment process is essential to ensuring full functionality in the cloud. In this course, you'll examine some of the common causes of deployment issues. First, you'll learn about some of the causes of service outages and the need for a disaster recovery plan. You'll explore how to troubleshoot performance and degradation issues and how these issues can relate to capacity planning. Next, you'll learn how automation scripts can be the cause of deployment issues and how good scripts validate and perform rollbacks on failure. You'll then move on to examine how to troubleshoot issues with applications in containers, how to validate deployment templates, and how insufficient resource capacity can cause degradation and latency issues. Finally, you'll learn how to troubleshoot licensing and vendor-related issues. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 28m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Cloud+: Troubleshooting Automation and Orchestration Issues

Being able to troubleshoot issues during cloud automation and orchestration is important to ensuring smooth and efficient deployments in a cloud environment. In this course you will examine some of the causes of these issues. First, you'll explore automation and orchestration issues that occur due to user account or service account permission issues, change management process miscommunications, and DNS and server name changes. Next, you'll learn about automation and orchestration issues that occur due to IP address scheme changes, changed availability zones, third-party versioning issues, and tool incompatibility issues. Finally, you'll examine how to validate change management processes and that patches installed correctly. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.

12 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

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CompTIA Security+: Security Goals & Controls

Every long journey, including the path to Security+ certification, begins with a few steps and some fundamental practices. Security goals and controls are an important starting point for building your security skills. You will begin this course by familiarizing yourself with the four primary security goals of confidentiality, integrity, availability, and non-repudiation. You will then explore the concepts of authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and how they relate to people, systems, and models. Finally, you will delve into security control categories and types. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

10 videos | 29m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Fundamental Security Concepts

The Security+ candidate must display competency in an assortment of core security concepts including the newer Zero Trust initiative and common physical security controls. In this course, the learner will explore gap analysis, Zero Trust control and data planes, deception technologies like honeynets, physical security controls, Change Management business processes and technical implications, and documentation and version control. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

11 videos | 33m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Practical Cryptography

Cryptography is at the heart of many security controls and countermeasures and as such, Security+ candidates must have a solid grasp of practical cryptography. In this course, you will discover symmetric and asymmetric cryptography and compare different encryption levels, including full disk and partition. Next, you will explore hashing, salting, hash-based message authentication codes (HMACs), and key exchange. Then you will examine digital signatures, certificates, and public key infrastructure (PKI), focusing on certificate authorities (CAs), certificate signing request (CSR) generation, and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP). Finally, you will investigate cryptographic tools like Trusted Platform Module (TPM), hardware security module, and key management systems, and you will dive into blockchain technology. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

11 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Threat Actors & Vectors

One of the primary goals for an emerging security practitioner is to have a firm grasp of the present threatscape. The learner will build this vital knowledge base in this course. In this course, we will explore threat actor types, attributes, and motivations. Next, we will dive into the use of human vectors and social engineering as well as common attack surfaces. Then we will explore supply chain, application, and O/S and web-based vulnerabilities. Finally, we will cover hardware and virtualization vulnerabilities, cloud vulnerabilities, and mobile device vulnerabilities. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

12 videos | 34m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Survey of Malicious Activities

Malicious software, also known as malware, comes in a variety of attack vectors and characteristics. The ability to stay current with the different malware and variants is one of the biggest challenges for modern security professionals. Begin this course by exploring malware attacks like ransomware, trojan horses, and logic bombs. Then you will investigate physical and network attacks including brute force, denial-of-service, and credential replay attacks. Next, you will focus on application and cryptographic attacks, such as buffer overflow, privilege escalation, collision, and birthday attacks. Finally, you will take a look at password attacks and discover indicators of compromise, like concurrent session usage, blocked content, and impossible travel. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

9 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Mitigation Techniques

As a security professional, it is always better to be proactive with mitigation rather than purely reactive. Begin this course by exploring segmentation and isolation, access control mechanisms, and configuration and patch management. Next, you will investigate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties and find out how encryption technologies can shield private information from unauthorized users. Then you will examine the monitoring and visibility of access controls and learn the best practices for decommissioning and offboarding. Finally, you will focus on hardening techniques, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), host intrusion detection system (HIDS)/host intrusion prevention system (HIPS), disabling ports/protocols, default password changes, and removal of unnecessary software. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

10 videos | 29m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Architecture & Infrastructure Concepts

A physical structure that is built by engineers and architects needs solid design, construction, and ongoing maintenance. The same can be said for a networking and system environment. Begin this course by exploring fundamental security architectural considerations, including high availability, resilience, scalability, and responsiveness. Then, you will discover cloud computing, focusing on the cloud responsibility matrix, hybrid considerations, and third-party vendors. You will investigate Infrastructure as Code, compare serverless technologies, and learn about containers and microservices. Next, you will take a look at network infrastructure, centralized and decentralized design, and virtualization. Finally, you will examine industrial control systems (ICSs), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and the Internet of Things. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

12 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Enterprise Infrastructure Security Principles

This course is a critical component of modern technical controls and countermeasures, as many of the technologies covered represent the daily technical activities of security practitioners, operators, and administrators. Begin by discovering various infrastructure security considerations like device placement, security zones, and failure modes. Then, you will compare network appliances and explore port security and firewalls. Next, you will examine virtual private networks (VPNs) and IP security (IPSec). Finally, you will investigate transport layer security (TLS), software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs), and secure access service edge (SASE). This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

10 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Data Protection Concepts & Strategies

It is an understatement to declare that society is rapidly becoming a data-driven and service-oriented. Data protection and security is a key aspect of modern IT security management. In this course, we will begin by exploring data states, classification, types, and lifecycles. Then we will examine considerations for securing data including geographic and cultural restrictions, encryptions, and hashing. Finally, we will look at masking, obfuscation, and tokenization as well as segmentation and compartmentalization. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

10 videos | 26m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Resilience & Recovery

Restoration and recovery is a vital part of a comprehensive backup plan. As a well-known axiom regarding backup strategy states, "a backup policy without tested restoration and recovery is no backup at all." In this course, we will examine restoration and recovery concepts, beginning with load balancing, clustering, and backup strategies. Next, we will explore continuity of operations, multicloud, and disaster recovery sites. We will then focus on capacity planning and testing techniques. Finally, we will look at power considerations. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

9 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Computing Resources Security Techniques

Today's security professional must contend with more types of computing systems and operating systems than ever before due to mobility, embedded, smart, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this course, you will explore secure baselines and hardening targets. Then you will learn about wireless device installation issues, mobile device solutions, and connection methods. Next, you will investigate wireless security settings, cryptographic protocols, and authentication protocols. Finally, you will discover application security techniques and asset management tasks, including assignment/accounting, monitoring/asset tracking, enumeration, and disposal/decommissioning. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

9 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management is an ongoing process designed to proactively protect computer systems, networks, and applications from cyberattacks and data breaches and is an integral part of your overall security system. Begin this course by exploring threat feeds like open-source intelligence (OSINT), Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), and Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) to help gather information about potential threats or adversaries. Then you will investigate application vulnerability assessments for assigning severity levels, vulnerability scanning to identify known and unknown weaknesses, and penetration testing to simulate real-world attacks. Finally, you will discover vulnerability response and learn how to validate and report on remediation processes. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

8 videos | 26m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Security Monitoring & Alerting

Congratulations. You have convinced your steering committee to give you a huge budget, new hires, and broader access to deploy a ton of security controls at the new regional branch office. However, within weeks you will be brought back to report on the effectiveness of the new expensive toys. This is why solid monitoring and alerting are critical for success. In this course, you will explore security monitoring and alerting, beginning with monitoring computing resources, visibility, and agent-based and agentless monitoring. Then you will focus on monitoring activities like log aggregation, alert response, and validation. Next, you will discover the importance and benefits of Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), security information and event management (SIEM), and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) systems. Finally, you will investigate antivirus and data loss prevention (DLP) systems, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps, and NetFlow records. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

10 videos | 31m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Enterprise Security Capabilities

This course is a vital exploration of many of the day-to-day operational controls that the security professional is often involved with. This is what is referred to as the "due care" aspect of the job or ongoing continual maintenance. In other words, these are core "blue team" responsibilities. Topics presented to the learner include firewalls, intrusion detection system (IDS)/intrusion prevention system (IPS), web filtering, operating system security, implementing secure protocols, DNS filtering, email security, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), Sender Policy Framework (SPF), gateways, File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), data loss prevention (DLP), network access control (NAC), endpoint detection and response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and user behavior analytics (UBA). This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

13 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Identity and Access Management

Hybrid and remote work are more common than ever, and employees need secure access to enterprise resources from wherever they are. This is where identity and access management (IAM) comes to the rescue. The organization's IT department needs to control what users can and can't access so that sensitive data and functions are restricted to only the people and resources that need to work with them. In this course, we will explore IAM tools beginning with provisioning and deprovisioning user accounts, and password concepts including password best practices, length, complexity, reuse, expiration, age, password managers, and passwordless solutions. Next, we will look at federation and single sign-on (SSO), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Open Authorization (OAuth), Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML), interoperability, and attestation. We will then consider access control models including mandatory, discretionary, role-based, rule-based, attribute-based, time-of-day restrictions, and least privilege. Finally, we will explore multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometric authentication, and privileged access management tools (PAM). This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

9 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Automation, Orchestration, & Incident Response

Automation offers many advantages to information technology including higher production rates and increased productivity, more efficient use of resources, both physical and logical, better product/service quality, and improved security and safety. In this course, the learner will tackle concepts such as automation and scripting use cases, continuous integration and testing, application programming interfaces (APIs), the benefits of automation, automation considerations, the incident response process, training, testing, tabletop exercises, simulations, threat hunting, root cause analysis, digital forensics, and investigation data sources. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

10 videos | 48m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Effective Security Governance

According to Gartner: "Security governance is a process for overseeing the cybersecurity teams who are responsible for mitigating business risks. Security governance leaders make the decisions that allow risks to be prioritized so that security efforts are focused on business priorities rather than their own." In this course, you will further define security governance and types of governance structures. Then you will discover security governance roles and responsibilities, such as owners, stewards, and officers, and external governance considerations. Next, you will explore guidance, best practices, standards, and policies like the software development life cycle (SDLC) and change management. Finally, you will investigate security governance procedures, including playbooks, monitoring, and revision. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

9 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Risk Management

Security risk management is the ongoing process of identifying security risks and implementing plans to address them. Most security professionals should have a solid foundation in this important cross-disciplinary initiative. In this course, you will take a deep dive into security risk management, including risk identification and assessment. Then you will explore risk analysis concepts like qualitative and quantitative analysis and impact/magnitude. Next, you will discover risk treatment and handling strategies, including transfer, acceptance, and exemption. You will examine risk registers and ledgers, key risk indicators, risk owners, and risk thresholds. Finally, you will investigate risk reporting techniques and business impact analysis (BIA) to predict the consequences of a disruption to a business and collect information needed to develop recovery strategies. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

9 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Security Compliance & Third-Party Risk

Security compliance management is the collection of policies, procedures, and other internal controls that an enterprise leverages to meet its regulatory requirements for data privacy and protection. In this course, you will explore compliance monitoring topics like due diligence, attestation, and compliance automation, as well as internal and external compliance reporting. Then you investigate the consequences of non-compliance, including fines, sanctions, and reputational damage. Next, you will examine privacy considerations for keeping information involving people confidential. Finally, you will assess vendor assessment and selection techniques like supply chain analysis and rules of engagement, and you will discover various agreement types, such as non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), service-level agreements (SLAs), and statements of work (SOWs). This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

8 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

CompTIA Security+: Audits, Assessments, & Awareness

A security audit is a systematic and methodical examination of an organization's security infrastructure, policies, and procedures. The goal is to identify vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and potential threats to sensitive information assets, physical assets, and personnel. In this final course, the learner will be exposed to topics such as internal and external audit and attestation, penetration testing audits, user guidance and training, phishing campaigns, and security training monitoring and reporting. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

8 videos | 23m Assessment Badge

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CompTIA CASP+: Assessing & Managing Risk

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.

15 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Virtualization Security

Securing today's enterprise computing environments means understanding how virtualization is used. Organizations must consider how to secure virtualization solutions used both on-premises in and the cloud. In this course, you'll learn to identify various types of virtualization solutions such as network virtualization, operating system virtualization, desktop, and app virtualization. You will then learn to distinguish the difference between type 1 and type 2 hypervisors. Next, you'll focus on virtualization security and how to deploy virtual machines on-premises. Lastly, you'll learn to work with application containers. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

12 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Secure Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is widely used by individuals and enterprises to outsource IT solutions. In this course, you'll begin with learning how to identify cloud deployment and service models. Next, you'll review cloud service level agreements, cloud security solutions, and how to work with cloud VNets. Moving on, you'll learn how to configure cloud autoscaling to increase application availability. You'll also explore now to deploy a cloud-based firewall, configure firewall routing, and enable RDP through cloud firewalls. Lastly, you'll learn how to create a cloud key vault and enable cloud storage security. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

19 videos | 1h 50m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Cryptography & PKI

Cryptography has long played a role in securing sensitive information. In this course, you'll begin with an overview of cryptography and how it can secure data at rest and data in motion. You'll then learn how to enable EFS and BitLocker to protect data at rest. You'll explore how to identify methods by which cryptography can protect data in transit and configure network security via IPsec. Finally, you'll examine how PKI uses certificates to secure IT systems through HTTPS, SSH remote management, and generating file system hashes. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

17 videos | 1h 51m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Storage & Network Security

On-premises and cloud-based storage security solutions are very similar in nature. In this course, you'll learn how to determine which RAID disk solution best applies in a given situation, as well as how to secure various network storage solutions and DNS. Next, you'll learn to recognize when to apply firewalls to secure networks and how to configure various firewall solutions. Moving on, you'll explore how to configure a VPN and secure wired and wireless networks. Lastly, you'll examine how to manage servers through a jump box and how attackers enable reverse shells. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

16 videos | 1h 47m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Authentication & Authorization

Securing user and device logins, as well as access to IT resources, relates to authentication and authorization. In this course, you'll learn how to differentiate between authentication and authorization and also ow to enable 2FA and MFA user authentication. Next, you'll explore how to enable Wi-Fi RADIUS authentication, configure SELinux, and enable attribute-based control in Windows. Lastly, you'll examine how to use Group Policy to configure password policy settings, crack passwords using freely available tools like the Johnny tool, brute-force RDP using Hydra, and limit cloud admin access using role-based access control. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

11 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: IT Governance & Security Compliance

IT governance involves ensuring that business and regulatory compliance needs are met by IT solutions. In this course, you'll learn to identify common data privacy standards and regulations, as well as various types of business agreements. Next, you'll learn to classify personally identifiable information using various methods including Macie for data discovery and classification. You'll explore how to use Azure Information Protection to enable DLP and tag cloud resources to facilitate resource management. You'll then examine how to securely wipe a storage device and identify common organization security policies. Lastly, you'll learn how to identify data roles and configure cloud data retention. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

12 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Mobile & Embedded Devices

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and as a result deserve the attention of cybersecurity specialists. In this course, you'll explore how mobile, embedded, drones, and IoT devices are used and their related security risks. Next, you'll learn how to search for vulnerable devices using the Shodan web site. Moving on, you'll explore how to secure remote network connectivity with a VPN and examine smartphone hardening techniques. Lastly, you'll learn how to register and manage an Android device using a Mobile Device Management solution. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

8 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Industrial Computing Environments

Industrial control systems present a unique security risk when it comes to public services such as power, water, and other industrial processes. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize common industrial network protocols and terminology. Next, you'll learn how Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition relates to industrial control systems. You'll explore NIST ICS security control documentation. Lastly, you'll learn how to configure an S7 PLC emulator and use Metasploit to stop the device. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

8 videos | 39m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Emerging Technologies & SecDevOps

Emerging technologies present unique security risks in that the technology is not yet mature. Software developers must adhere to secure development practices to minimize threat impacts. In this course, you'll learn how to identify security risks associated with emerging technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, and 3-D printing. You'll also learn to identify the top 10 web app threats and use the OWASP ZAP tool to identify web app vulnerabilities. Next, you'll explore how to securely develop and deploy software solutions. Lastly, you learn to distinguish between various testing techniques. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

8 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Monitoring & Incident Response

Enterprise IT monitoring is crucial in detecting potential security incidents. In this course, you'll explore various monitoring methods for hosts, devices, and networks. Next, you'll learn to configure log forwarding and work with logs through PowerShell. Moving on, you'll learn to recognize when to use honeyfiles, honeypots, and honeynets, as well as SIEM and SOAR solutions. You'll then examine intrusion detection and prevention and how they are used to secure a network. Lastly, you'll explore the use of tools such as Snort, tcpdump, nmap, and Wireshark for analyzing networks and network traffic. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

15 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Vulnerabilities & Hardening

Cybersecurity specialists must be able to identify vulnerabilities and apply security controls to mitigate threats. In this course, you'll learn how to identify the steps attackers take to gain access to resources and examine physical security issues. Next, you'll learn how network segmentation can increase security, how attackers use zombies and botnets, and how common attacks take place. Moving on, you'll explore common hardening techniques, how to scan for vulnerabilities, and how to setup up a WSUS server. Lastly, you'll learn how to use the Metasploit framework and crack WPA2 Wi-Fi passphrases. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

13 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Digital Forensics

Gathering digital evidence for use in a court of law is done using very specific techniques. In this course, you'll learn to recognize the process by which hardware and software digital forensic tools are used to acquire and analyze evidence. Next, you'll learn to work with file system hashing and forensic disk image acquisition including creating and hashing a Linux disk image. You'll also explore how to use FTK imager to acquire a forensic disk image. Lastly, you'll explore how to retrieve Android device information using the Android Debug Bridge and hide messages using steganography. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

8 videos | 39m Assessment Badge

CompTIA CASP+: Business Continuity

Business continuity measures ensure that business operations continue during disruptions. In this course, you'll learn how to identify common disaster recovery terms and techniques and plan how to respond to business disruptions. Next, you'll learn to identify how to use physical and logical redundancy, clustering and load balancing to increase system and application availability. Lastly, you'll explore cloud-based load balancing and backups including learning how to configure and deploy a Microsoft Azure Load Balancer as well as back up data using Microsoft Azure. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.

7 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

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CCNA 2020: Networking Components

Familiarize yourself with the knowledge and skills required for various IT careers, as well as a high-level overview of the CCNA exam topics. Examine hardware and software you should be able to identify as a CCNA professional, as well as where these components are used and how they are connected. In addition, discover the roles, functions, and importance of routers and switches in a conventional networking infrastructure. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 50m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Networking Components - NGFW, NGIPS, & Cisco DNA Center

Explore NGFW and NGIPS security devices, including how they differ from traditional firewalls and IPS devices and why they are needed in today's networking environment. Examine the purpose of Cisco DNA Center, its interface, and how it is used to work with network programmability. The goal of intent-based networking management is also covered. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: WLCs, Access Points, Servers, & Endpoints

Explore the roles and functions of Wireless LAN Controllers and Wireless Access Points, including when they and are not required. Additionally, examine where servers and endpoints fit into network infrastructure and the purposes they serve. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 40m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Network Topology Architectures

Explore network topology architectures, including where to use them and their components. In addition, examine data center topology architectures, including traditional and spine-leaf, and the differences between them. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Network Topology Architectures - WAN, Cloud, & SOHO

Explore the different WAN access topology architectures that network technicians need to be able to identify and understand. Examine the basic topologies implemented, regardless of whether you're using MPLS, MetroE, Broadband PPPoE, or VPNs for connectivity. Discover cloud network topology architectures and the terminology that describes them, and SOHO network topology architectures and the differences between home and small office components uses in a SOHO environment. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Layer 1 Interfaces & Cabling

Explore the basics of building networking pathways, the different physical interfaces and cabling used in networking for connecting devices together, and the basic logical topology created by components. Delve into the fiber-optic, copper, and Ethernet cabling and when to use them, and examine the concept of Power Over Ethernet. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Layer 1 Physical & Configuration Issues

Discover how to identify physical and configuration issues that can occur at Layer 1. On Cisco routers and switches, examine some of the different issues that interrupt data flow. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Networking Protocols

Explore networking protocols and the differences between TCP and UDP. Discover the differences in TCP and UDP header components, how TCP and UDP work across the network, and which upper level protocols use TCP and UDP. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: IP Addressing Basics & Configuration

Familiarize yourself with the basics of IP addressing and the hardware and software components a CCNA professional should be able to identify. Examine where components are used and how they are connected for networking. In addition, discover how to configure IPv4 addresses on physical and logical interfaces and verify the configuration. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: IPv4 Subnetting

Explore subnetting principles as an important part of your exam preparation. Discover how to subnet various class addresses and the difference between them. Examine methods for speeding up the subnetting process and how to perform a VLSm with an address space. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

5 videos | 1h 46m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: IPv6 Addressing & Configuration

Explore the basics of identifying IPv6 addresses and why you should be using them. Examine the different types of IPv6 addresses, how to configure them on Cisco devices and on a Windows OS, and how to find IP addressing information in various operating systems. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

4 videos | 1h 22m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Virtualization Concepts

Discover virtualization concepts that IT professionals should know, types of virtualization, and how to install a virtual machine. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Network Access, VLAN Configuration, & Interswitch Connectivity

Explore how network access can be configured, as well as how switches function and why they are the choice for LAN connectivity over hubs. Examine the basics of VLANs, how to create them on switches, types of VLANs, and how to verify configuration. In addition, discover why you would connect multiple switches, how to do it, and how to verify your configuration. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

6 videos | 1h 51m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: L2 Discovery Protocols & L2 and L3 EtherChannel Configuration

Familiarize yourself with L2 discovery protocols, including how to configure Cisco Discovery Protocol and Link Local Discovery Protocol and verify their configuration. Examine L2 EtherChannel configuration, including why to use it, options and verification commands, and the protocols that can be used. In addition, how to configure L3 EtherChannel and how configuration differs from L2 EtherChannel is also covered. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

5 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Spanning Tree Protocol

Explore Spanning Tree Protocol, including why it is needed and how to configure it and verify configuration. Discover how to diagram the logic of STP, different types of STP, and how to configure Rapid PVST+ on Cisco switches. In addition, examine reasons for using PortFast and BPDU Guard and why they shouldn't be used on trunks. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

4 videos | 1h 24m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Cisco Wireless Architecture & WLAN Components

Explore the basics of wireless networking, including what is required to set up a wireless network, and Cisco wireless architectures and AP modes. Discover different components connected to the WLC, how devices are physically connected, and the types of connections needed in wireless infrastructure. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Cisco WLC Configuration & Wireless Management Access

Explore the GUI interface of a Cisco WLC and discover where to configure WLANs, security settings, QoS profiles, and advanced WLAN settings. Discover the different authentication settings for your WLAN by configuring WPA2 PSK through the GUI. Examine where to configure different management access options in the WLC, including settings for SSH, HTTP-HTTPS access, and serial connections. The use of TACACS+/RADIUS for authentication is also covered. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 36m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Static Routing

Explore routing basics, including how frames move through routes to a destination and how routers build routing tables. Discover the use of IPv4 and IPv6 static default and network routes, and how to implement additional types of IPv4 and IPv4 routes. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

6 videos | 2h 3m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Dynamic Routing

Explore the concept of dynamic routing, including protocol types, metrics, and how routers learn routes. Examine OSPF concepts such as conditions for becoming OSPF neighbors, how OSPF works, and how to configure and verify it. In addition, discover how to configure FHRPs and why you would use them, and configure VRRP and GLBP. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

5 videos | 1h 58m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Configuring & Verifying NAT

Explore networking services a CCNA professional should be aware of. Examine the use of NAT with IPv4, configure static NAT, and the drawbacks of using static NAT. Discover how to configure dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation, and how to verify the working configuration. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: NTP, DNS, & DHCP

Discover how to configure NTP, as well why its needed and how it is used for network device synchronization. Explore DNS and how to configure a Cisco router to work as a DNS server. Examine how DHCP manage and distributes IP information and how to configure a DHCP server and relay. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 1h 3m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: SNMP, Syslog, & PHB for QoS

Explore SNMP, including why you need to know about it and how to configure it. Examine the different versions and how to configure version 2c and 3 to make a router send SNMP information to the SNMP server. Delve into Syslog, including how actions are logged on Cisco devices, where logs are stored, and how to understand the log messages. In addition, discover the need for QoS and what per-hop behaviors do. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Configuring SSH, FTP, & TFTP

Discover how to configure IP services such as SSH, FTP, and TFTP. Explore the importance of enabling remote access using SSH instead of Telnet, elements required to ensure remove access to devices is secured, how to verify secured access, and use FTP and TFTP to back up the IOS image. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: IT Security Concepts

Explore the security concepts and terminology a CCNA professional should be familiar with. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 22m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Security Program &Password Policy Components

Explore the basics of security programs including end user security components, user awareness, training, and physical access controls. Discover how to establish and manage a security password policy, factoring in complexity requirements. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: AAA Security & VPN Types

Explore Cisco's new model security, AAA security. Discover the differences between authentication, authorization, and accounting, and how to configure a router to use a RADIUS server and verify the configuration. Examine VPN types, including remote access VPNs and site-to-site VPNs, and when to use them. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Configuring & Verifying ACLs

Explore the use of ACLs on Cisco devices and how to configure and verify standard, extended, and named ACLs. In addition, examine the differences between named and numbered ACLs. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Configuring Port Security, DHCP Snooping, & DAI

Explore the importance of port security and the steps and options required to configure static and sticky port security. Discover how to configure DHCP snooping and Dynamic ARP Inspection and why they are used and configured on switches. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Automation, Network Programmability, & SDN Architectures

Explore the concepts of automation and programmability domain objectives. Delve into network programmability, why it's needed, and why you should know about it. Examine the SDN Architecture and its terminology, as well as the difference between data and control planes. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 39m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: APIs & Cisco DNA Center

Examine the concept of APIs, including REST-based APIs, data encoding, and authentication methods. Explore the differences between traditional campus device management and Cisco DNA Center device management, and the benefits and uses of Cisco DNA Center. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

3 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

CCNA 2020: Configuration Management & JSON Encoded Data

Examine the need for configuration management, as well as some of the configuration management utilities available. Explore the basics of data formats, including the structure of JSON encoded data and why it's used in networking programmability. This course can be used in preparation for the Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-301 certification exam.

2 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

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CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701): General Security Concepts Literacy (Beginner Level)

The General Security Concepts Literacy (Beginner Level) benchmark measures your understanding of the foundational elements of cybersecurity. You will be evaluated on your knowledge of the core principles that guide security practices, such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability (the CIA triad), and the types of security controls used to protect assets. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates literacy in many areas of this domain and understands the essential principles and policies that form the bedrock of information security, including the identification of security goals.

17m | 17 questions

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701): Understanding Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations Literacy (Beginner Level)

The Understanding Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations Literacy (Beginner Level) benchmark measures your comprehensive understanding of the various types of threats and vulnerabilities that can compromise information security. You will be evaluated on your recognition of threat actors and vectors, types of malicious attacks, mitigation techniques, and vulnerability management methods. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates literacy in many areas of this domain with the knowledge and insights needed for conducting surveys of malicious activities and the corresponding mitigation techniques to prevent, detect, and respond to security incidents.

30m | 30 questions

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701): Security Architecture Literacy (Beginner Level)

The Security Architecture Literacy (Beginner Level) benchmark measures your knowledge and skills in designing and implementing a secure IT infrastructure. You will be evaluated on your recognition of security architecture and design concepts, enterprise infrastructure security principles and capabilities, strategies for securing data, and mobile and wireless security. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates literacy in many areas related to architecture and infrastructure, principles of enterprise infrastructure security, strategies for data protection, and methods for securing computing resources.

30m | 30 questions

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701): Security Operations Literacy (Beginner Level)

The Security Operations Literacy (Beginner Level) benchmark measures your knowledge and skills in dealing with the operational aspects of maintaining and defending secure environments. You will be evaluated on your recognition of practical cryptography concepts, security monitoring and alerting methods, identity and access management approaches, and automation and incident response processes. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates literacy regarding the application of practical cryptography, monitoring security systems, and managing alerts. They are also knowledgeable about ensuring resilience and recovery in the event of a security breach, identity and access management, and the use of automation and orchestration for efficient incident response.

30m | 30 questions

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701): Security Program Management and Oversight Literacy (Beginner Level)

The Security Program Management and Oversight Literacy (Beginner Level) benchmark measures your knowledge and skills in addressing the strategic management and oversight functions necessary for a robust security posture. You will be evaluated on your recognition of effective security governance key concepts, risk management procedures, security compliance and third-party risk considerations, and strategies for audits, assessments, and awareness. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates literacy in the governance of security programs, risk management processes, compliance with security-related regulations, management of third-party risks, and the implementation of security awareness programs through audits, assessments, and training.

26m | 26 questions

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