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Practice the Skills Essential for a Successful Career in Cybersecurity
• 80 lab exercises give you the hands-on skills to complement your fundamental knowledge
• Lab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab activities and results
• Step-by-step scenarios require you to think critically
• Key term quizzes help build your vocabulary
Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond Lab Manual (Exam SY0-601) covers:
• Social engineering techniques
• Type of Attack Indicators
• Application Attack Indicators
• Network Attack Indicators
• Threat actors, vectors, and intelligence sources
• Vulnerabilities
• Security Assessments
• Penetration Testing
• Enterprise Architecture
• Virtualization and Cloud Security
• Secure App Development, deployment and Automation scripts
• Authentication and Authorization
• Cybersecurity Resilience
• Embedded and Specialized systems
• Physical Security
Instructor resources available:
• This lab manual supplements the textbook Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond, Sixth Edition (Exam SY0-601), which is available separately
• Solutions to the labs are not included in the book and are only available to adopting instructors
Author(s): Jonathan Weissman
Edition: 1
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 672
Tags: CompTIA Security+; Exam SY0-601; Lab Manual
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Additional Resources for Teachers
Chapter 1 Introduction and Security Trends
Lab Exercise 1.01: Staying Current with Industry
Lab Exercise 1.02: Cyber Threat Maps
Lab Exercise 1.03: Cybersecurity Survey
Lab Exercise 1.04: Building the Virtual Lab
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 2 General Security Concepts
Lab Exercise 2.01: Verizon DBIR
Lab Exercise 2.02: Linux File System Management
Lab Exercise 2.03: Linux Systems Administration
Lab Exercise 2.04: Linux System Security
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 3 Operational and Organizational Security
Lab Exercise 3.01: Policies
Lab Exercise 3.02: Training Documentation
Lab Exercise 3.03: Interoperability Agreements
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 4 The Role of People in Security
Lab Exercise 4.01: The Social-Engineer Toolkit
Lab Exercise 4.02: Phishing Tests
Lab Exercise 4.03: Reconnaissance Through Open-Source Intelligence
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 5 Cryptography
Lab Exercise 5.01: Symmetric Key Encryption
Lab Exercise 5.02: Asymmetric Key Encryption
Lab Exercise 5.03: Hashing
Lab Exercise 5.04: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 6 Applied Cryptography
Lab Exercise 6.01: Apple vs. FBI
Lab Exercise 6.02: Australia’s Assistance and Access Bill
Lab Exercise 6.03: To Serve Man
Lab Exercise 6.04: E-mail Cryptography
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 7 Public Key Infrastructure
Lab Exercise 7.01: DNSSEC for Security
Lab Exercise 7.02: DNSSEC for Exploiting
Lab Exercise 7.03: TLS in Action
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 8 Physical Security
Lab Exercise 8.01: Linux Password Recovery
Lab Exercise 8.02: Cisco Router Password Recovery
Lab Exercise 8.03: Cisco Switch Password Recovery
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 9 Network Fundamentals
Lab Exercise 9.01: Switch Configuration
Lab Exercise 9.02: Router Configuration
Lab Exercise 9.03: Passwords and SSH
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 10 Infrastructure Security
Lab Exercise 10.01: Port Security on Switches
Lab Exercise 10.02: Standard ACLs on Routers
Lab Exercise 10.03: Extended ACLs on Routers
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 11 Authentication and Remote Access
Lab Exercise 11.01: Dictionary Attacks on Linux Passwords with John the Ripper
Lab Exercise 11.02: Brute Force Attacks on Linux Passwords with crunch and John the Ripper
Lab Exercise 11.03: Dictionary Attacks and Brute Force Aa tt cks on Windows Passwords with Mimikatz, crunch, and John the Ripper
Lab Exercise 11.04: Rainbow Table Attacks on Windows Passwords with ophcrack
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 12 Wireless Security and Mobile Devices
Lab Exercise 12.01: Wireless Network and Device Detection
Lab Exercise 12.02: Monitor Mode Sniffing
Lab Exercise 12.03: Cracking WPA2 Passwords and Deauthenticating Clients with Wifite
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 13 Intrusion Detection Systems and Network Security
Lab Exercise 13.01: Installing Ubuntu and Snort
Lab Exercise 13.02: Snort Sniffer Mode
Lab Exercise 13.03: Snort Packet Logger Mode
Lab Exercise 13.04: Snort Network Intrusion Detection System Mode
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 14 System Hardening and Baselines
Lab Exercise 14.01: Active Directory Domain Services and Domain Connectivity
Lab Exercise 14.02: Organizational Units and Groups
Lab Exercise 14.03: Users and Other Active Directory Objects
Lab Exercise 14.04: Permissions and Shares
Lab Exercise 14.05: Group Policy Objects
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 15 Types of Attacks and Malicious Software
Lab Exercise 15.01: Strings
Lab Exercise 15.02: UPX
Lab Exercise 15.03: PEview and Resource Hacker
Lab Exercise 15.04: VirusTotal
Lab Exercise 15.05: Regshot
Lab Exercise 15.06: Process Monitor
Lab Exercise 15.07: ApateDNS
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 16 Security Tools and Techniques
Lab Exercise 16.01: Port Scanning with Nmap
Lab Exercise 16.02: Sockets with netcat (nc) and ncat
Lab Exercise 16.03: Packet Crafting with hping3
Lab Exercise 16.04: Packet Crafting with Scapy
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 17 Web Components, E-mail, and Instant Messaging
Lab Exercise 17.01: E-mail Headers
Lab Exercise 17.02: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 18 Cloud Computing
Lab Exercise 18.01: Microsoft Azure Training
Lab Exercise 18.02: Exploring Microsoft Azure
Lab Exercise 18.03: AWS Educate and AWS Training and Certification
Lab Exercise 18.04: Exploring AWS
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 19 Secure Software Development
Lab Exercise 19.01: Configuring WampServer and DVWA
Lab Exercise 19.02: SQL Injection
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 20 Risk Management
Lab Exercise 20.01: PowerShell Script Settings
Lab Exercise 20.02: PowerShell Exploitation
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 21 Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Change Management
Lab Exercise 21.01: Business Continuity
Lab Exercise 21.02: Disaster Recovery
Lab Exercise 21.03: Change Management
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 22 Incident Response
Lab Exercise 22.01: Incident Response Companies and Stories
Lab Exercise 22.02: Metasploit Framework
Lab Exercise 22.03: Metasploit’s Meterpreter
Lab Exercise 22.04: Armitage
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 23 Computer Forensics
Lab Exercise 23.01: Windows Registry Forensics
Lab Exercise 23.02: Digital Evidence in RAM and on the Hard Drive
Lab Exercise 23.03: Steganography
Lab Exercise 23.04: Imaging, Recovering Deleted Files, File Signatures, and Analyzing Images
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 24 Legal Issues and Ethics
Lab Exercise 24.01: ACM Ethics
Lab Exercise 24.02: USENIX Ethics
Lab Exercise 24.03: Ethical Scenarios
Lab Exercise 24.04: Copyright
Lab Exercise 24.05: Creative Commons
Lab Exercise 24.06: FSF and GNU
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Chapter 25 Privacy
Lab Exercise 25.01: Shodan
Lab Exercise 25.02: Insecam
Lab Exercise 25.03: Google Hacking
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
Index
