Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond Lab Manual (Exam SY0-601)

by Jonathan Weissman

Length: 672 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication Date: 2021-08-27
ISBN-10: 1260470113
ISBN-13: 9781260470116
Sales Rank: #1652390 (See Top 100 Books)

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Practice the Skills Essential for a Successful Career in Cybersecurity

80 lab exercises give you the hands-on skills to complement your fundamental knowledge
Lab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab activities and results
Step-by-step scenarios require you to think critically
Key term quizzes help build your vocabulary

Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond Lab Manual (Exam SY0-601) covers:

Social engineering techniques
Type of Attack Indicators
Application Attack Indicators
Network Attack Indicators
Threat actors, vectors, and intelligence sources
Vulnerabilities
Security Assessments
Penetration Testing
Enterprise Architecture
Virtualization and Cloud Security
Secure App Development, deployment and Automation scripts
Authentication and Authorization
Cybersecurity Resilience
Embedded and Specialized systems
Physical Security

Instructor resources available:

This lab manual supplements the textbook Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond, Sixth Edition (Exam SY0-601), which is available separately
Solutions to the labs are not included in the book and are only available to adopting instructors

Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Additional Resources for Teachers
Chapter 1 Introduction and Security Trends
    Lab Exercise 1.01: Staying Current with Industry
    Lab Exercise 1.02: Cyber Threat Maps
    Lab Exercise 1.03: Cybersecurity Survey
    Lab Exercise 1.04: Building the Virtual Lab
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 2 General Security Concepts
    Lab Exercise 2.01: Verizon DBIR
    Lab Exercise 2.02: Linux File System Management
    Lab Exercise 2.03: Linux Systems Administration
    Lab Exercise 2.04: Linux System Security
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 3 Operational and Organizational Security
    Lab Exercise 3.01: Policies
    Lab Exercise 3.02: Training Documentation
    Lab Exercise 3.03: Interoperability Agreements
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 4 The Role of People in Security
    Lab Exercise 4.01: The Social-Engineer Toolkit
    Lab Exercise 4.02: Phishing Tests
    Lab Exercise 4.03: Reconnaissance Through Open-Source Intelligence
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 5 Cryptography
    Lab Exercise 5.01: Symmetric Key Encryption
    Lab Exercise 5.02: Asymmetric Key Encryption
    Lab Exercise 5.03: Hashing
    Lab Exercise 5.04: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 6 Applied Cryptography
    Lab Exercise 6.01: Apple vs. FBI
    Lab Exercise 6.02: Australia’s Assistance and Access Bill
    Lab Exercise 6.03: To Serve Man
    Lab Exercise 6.04: E-mail Cryptography
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 7 Public Key Infrastructure
    Lab Exercise 7.01: DNSSEC for Security
    Lab Exercise 7.02: DNSSEC for Exploiting
    Lab Exercise 7.03: TLS in Action
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 8 Physical Security
    Lab Exercise 8.01: Linux Password Recovery
    Lab Exercise 8.02: Cisco Router Password Recovery
    Lab Exercise 8.03: Cisco Switch Password Recovery
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 9 Network Fundamentals
    Lab Exercise 9.01: Switch Configuration
    Lab Exercise 9.02: Router Configuration
    Lab Exercise 9.03: Passwords and SSH
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 10 Infrastructure Security
    Lab Exercise 10.01: Port Security on Switches
    Lab Exercise 10.02: Standard ACLs on Routers
    Lab Exercise 10.03: Extended ACLs on Routers
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 11 Authentication and Remote Access
    Lab Exercise 11.01: Dictionary Attacks on Linux Passwords with John the Ripper
    Lab Exercise 11.02: Brute Force Attacks on Linux Passwords with crunch and John the Ripper
    Lab Exercise 11.03: Dictionary Attacks and Brute Force Attacks on Windows Passwords with Mimikatz, crunch, and John the Ripper
    Lab Exercise 11.04: Rainbow Table Attacks on Windows Passwords with ophcrack
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 12 Wireless Security and Mobile Devices
    Lab Exercise 12.01: Wireless Network and Device Detection
    Lab Exercise 12.02: Monitor Mode Sniffing
    Lab Exercise 12.03: Cracking WPA2 Passwords and Deauthenticating Clients with Wifite
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 13 Intrusion Detection Systems and Network Security
    Lab Exercise 13.01: Installing Ubuntu and Snort
    Lab Exercise 13.02: Snort Sniffer Mode
    Lab Exercise 13.03: Snort Packet Logger Mode
    Lab Exercise 13.04: Snort Network Intrusion Detection System Mode
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 14 System Hardening and Baselines
    Lab Exercise 14.01: Active Directory Domain Services and Domain Connectivity
    Lab Exercise 14.02: Organizational Units and Groups
    Lab Exercise 14.03: Users and Other Active Directory Objects
    Lab Exercise 14.04: Permissions and Shares
    Lab Exercise 14.05: Group Policy Objects
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 15 Types of Attacks and Malicious Software
    Lab Exercise 15.01: Strings
    Lab Exercise 15.02: UPX
    Lab Exercise 15.03: PEview and Resource Hacker
    Lab Exercise 15.04: VirusTotal
    Lab Exercise 15.05: Regshot
    Lab Exercise 15.06: Process Monitor
    Lab Exercise 15.07: ApateDNS
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 16 Security Tools and Techniques
    Lab Exercise 16.01: Port Scanning with Nmap
    Lab Exercise 16.02: Sockets with netcat (nc) and ncat
    Lab Exercise 16.03: Packet Crafting with hping3
    Lab Exercise 16.04: Packet Crafting with Scapy
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 17 Web Components, E-mail, and Instant Messaging
    Lab Exercise 17.01: E-mail Headers
    Lab Exercise 17.02: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 18 Cloud Computing
    Lab Exercise 18.01: Microsoft Azure Training
    Lab Exercise 18.02: Exploring Microsoft Azure
    Lab Exercise 18.03: AWS Educate and AWS Training and Certification
    Lab Exercise 18.04: Exploring AWS
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 19 Secure Software Development
    Lab Exercise 19.01: Configuring WampServer and DVWA
    Lab Exercise 19.02: SQL Injection
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 20 Risk Management
    Lab Exercise 20.01: PowerShell Script Settings
    Lab Exercise 20.02: PowerShell Exploitation
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 21 Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Change Management
    Lab Exercise 21.01: Business Continuity
    Lab Exercise 21.02: Disaster Recovery
    Lab Exercise 21.03: Change Management
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 22 Incident Response
    Lab Exercise 22.01: Incident Response Companies and Stories
    Lab Exercise 22.02: Metasploit Framework
    Lab Exercise 22.03: Metasploit’s Meterpreter
    Lab Exercise 22.04: Armitage
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 23 Computer Forensics
    Lab Exercise 23.01: Windows Registry Forensics
    Lab Exercise 23.02: Digital Evidence in RAM and on the Hard Drive
    Lab Exercise 23.03: Steganography
    Lab Exercise 23.04: Imaging, Recovering Deleted Files, File Signatures, and Analyzing Images
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 24 Legal Issues and Ethics
    Lab Exercise 24.01: ACM Ethics
    Lab Exercise 24.02: USENIX Ethics
    Lab Exercise 24.03: Ethical Scenarios
    Lab Exercise 24.04: Copyright
    Lab Exercise 24.05: Creative Commons
    Lab Exercise 24.06: FSF and GNU
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Chapter 25 Privacy
    Lab Exercise 25.01: Shodan
    Lab Exercise 25.02: Insecam
    Lab Exercise 25.03: Google Hacking
    Lab Analysis
    Key Term Quiz
Index

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