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. YouÆll explore well-known threats both internal and external as well as common vulnerabilities and newly discovered software vulnerabilities. Next youÆll 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.”