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Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security+ Skills
Develop the skills you need in the real world
Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of security administrators, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of a security administrator's job, including:
- Designing a secure network environment
- Creating and implementing standard security policies and practices
- Identifying insecure systems in current environment
- Providing training to on-site and remote users
An invaluable study tool
This no-nonsense book also covers the common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its Security+ candidates to know how to perform. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, including:
- Performing an initial risk assessment
- Installing, updating, and running anti-virus
- Encrypting files and securing e-mail
- Creating new user accounts
- Deploying IPSec
This book is designed to help current or aspiring security administrators put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, the book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks.
Book Details
Paperback:
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456 pages
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Publisher:
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Sybex (February 5, 2007)
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Language:
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English
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ISBN-10:
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0470102586
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ISBN-13:
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978-0470102589
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 David R. Miller (MCT, MCSE: Security Windows Server 2003, MCSE Windows 2000 and NT 4.0, CISSP, CEH, ECSA, LPT, CWNA, CCNA, CNE, CompTIA Security+, A+, N+) is a technical writer, trainer, author, curriculum developer, network engineer. David began as a technical trainer in the mid 1980's providing instruction on PC based medical therapy devices. David achieved his CNE in the early 1990's and then founded MicroLink Corporation in 1994 in Dallas, Texas performing network installation and user training. After attaining his first Microsoft certification in 1997, he began teaching the MCSE track at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He joined an MCSE, boot camp style, private training institution, Intense School in 1999 and was Director of training there until 2002.
He has been working with Shon Harris, best selling author of CISSP fame, for the last several years as Director of Training for Logical Security, LLC. There he has managed several teams of curriculum developers. He acts as corporate IT Director and coordinates the development of student manuals, lab manuals and classroom setup.
 Michael Gregg (CISSP, MCSE, MCT, CTT, A+, N+, Security+, CNA, CCNA, CIW Security Analyst, CCE, CEH, CHFI, CEI, DCNP, ES Dragon IDS, ES Advanced Dragon IDS, and TICSA) has more than 20 years experience in the IT field. Michael is the President of Superior Solutions, Inc., a Houston based training and consulting firm. He is an expert on networking, security, and Internet technologies. He is a member of the Independent Computer Consulting Association and of the Texas Association of Educational Technology.
Introduction
Phase 1: The Grunt Work of Security
Phase 2: Hardening Systems
Phase 3: Protecting against Malware
Phase 4: Secure Storage
Phase 5: Managing User Accounts
Phase 6: Network Security
Phase 7: Securing Internet Activity
Phase 8: Security Testing
Phase 9: Investigating Incidents
Phase 10: Security Troubleshooting
Index
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Last Updated: Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:41
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