Week 5
Although this chapter is only 14 pages you may find 7-8 of these questions in the exam
Read Chapter 4
Chapter 5 – Monitoring, Scanning and Penetration Testing
Action – Ian’s Book Key Elements
Read pages 141 -155 taking notes
Complete all 23 review questions
Any review questions that are wrong or missing then go back into the chapter and read those areas
Action – Videos Professor Messer
https://www.professormesser.com/security-plus/sy0-601/sy0-601-video/sy0-601-comptia-security-plus-course/
1.2 Adversarial Artificial Intelligence
1.6 Vulnerabilities
1.6 Vulnerability Impacts
1.7 Security Assessments

  • Threat Hunting
  • Vulnerability Scans
  • Security Information and Event Management

1.8 Penetration Testing

  • Penetration Testing
  • Reconnaissance
  • Security Teams

4.3 Investigations

  • Vulnerability Scan Output
  • SIEM Dashboards
  • Log Files
  • Log Management
Action – Lab Exercises (optional) 101 Labs
33- Perform a network vulnerability scan with OpenVAS
73- Running a vulnerability scan with Nessus
CompTIA Security+ – 101Labs.net
Penetration Test Concepts
Reconnaissance
Pivoting
Reconnaissance Tools
Red Team/Blue Team
Vulnerability Scanning Concepts

  • CVE
  • CVEE
  • Credentialed Scanning
  • Non-Credentialed Scanning

Heavily Tested
SIEM – (Aggregation could be Correlation)
Syslog
SOAR

  • Playbooks/Runbooks

Threat Hunting