CompTIA Security+ Certification SY0-501: The Total Course

This episode introduces you to the certification exam and discusses the three goals of security. You'll also identify types of risk and learn how to bring them under control. Moving along, you'll become familiar with the policies, training, and framework related to security.

In this episode, you'll go through the basics of Cryptography. You'll find out how to encrypt and decrypt data with the same and different keys and get to grips with the popular Diffie-Hellman algorithm and PG/GPG methods. You'll also work with certificates, steganography, and get a demo on how to protect encrypted information.

This episode will show you how to protect your identity online. You'll learn authorization concepts, strengthen your passwords, add permissions to your machines and operating systems, and set up a strong user account management.

You'll become familiar with the tools that play an important role in securing online devices.

This episode lists out the attacks that prevent our individual systems from functioning correctly. Moving along, you'll find out amazing techniques to keep these attacks away from the systems.

This episode will get you started with LAN security. You'll figure out network topologies, zones, and firewalls, along with proxy servers, honeypots, and VPN.

In the last episode, you have learned the basics of LAN security. This episode will help you to grasp advanced concepts of securing the LAN. You'll deal with WEP, WPA, and WPS wireless security attacks and explore virtualization technologies and wireless hardening. You'll also learn techniques to remain secure in a non-secure, open-network environment, like a coffee shop.

You'll find out what role does TLS and internet service hardening plays in protocol security. You'll also take a look at the methods that are used for securing the deployment code.

This episode will make you familiar with the vulnerability scanning tools that help in spotting the weaknesses in computers and online devices. You'll also explore social engineering attacks and find out how systems are exploited and how the attacks can be prevented.

In this episode, you'll learn the steps involved in incident response. You'll collect and preserve data when incidents happen, create a contingency plan, and find out the importance of taking backups.