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.