CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 Video Mentor [Paperback]

Shon L. Harris (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789740249 | ISBN-13: 978-0789740243 | Publication Date: April 25, 2010 | Edition: 1

Learn exam essentials from the Expert

 

The fast, powerful way to prepare for your CompTIA Security+ exam!

Get all the hands-on training you need to pass the CompTIA Security+ exam, get certified, and move forward in your IT career! This easy-to-use DVD walks you through the skills and concept you’ll need to master and pass the Security+ SY0-201 exam. This DVD contains more than 5 hours of expert-led videos designed to build and test your knowledge of Security+ and a whole lot more!

Thorough coverage of the following topics:

• Understanding general cryptography concepts
• Creating symmetric and asymmetric keys and learning how to use them together
• Comparing protocol analyzers and statistical analyzers
• Understanding the benefits and limitations of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificates
• Reviewing the foundations of TCP/IP, including TCP and UDP protocols, ports and system services, and IPv6
• Examining IPsec, including its operational modes
• Mitigating against weak passwords and other network vulnerabilities

 

About the Shon Harris Security Series

This DVD package is part of a complete library of books, online services, and videos designed to help security professionals enhance their skills and prepare for their certification exams. Every product in this series reflects Shon Harris’s unsurpassed experience in teaching IT security professionals.

 

Detailed lessons: Each video begins with a lesson that covers Security+ concepts that will be demonstrated in the lab portions of the videos.

 

Lab examples: Walk through labs with the presenter to learn important setups and configurations.

 

Commands: Go beyond the graphical interface with important commands.

 

 

 

 

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Shon Harris is the president and owner of Logical Security, Inc., a security consultant, a former engineer in the Air Force’s Information Warfare unit, an instructor, and an author. She has authored two best-selling CISSP books, is a coauthor to the book, Gray Hat Hacking, and is the author of many articles and periodicals. Shon was recognized as one of the top 25 women in the Information Security field by Information Security magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (April 25, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789740249
• ISBN-13: 978-0789740243
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,042,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars no hard maths, May 6, 2010

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This review is from: CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 Video Mentor (Paperback)

The topics tackled by these videos cover several basic issues of computer security. The videos are suited for students who need the assistance of video instructions to garner the gist of the topics. As with the other videos in this compTIA series, you should have the detailed backup of an accompanying text.

The first lesson on symmetric and asymmetric algorithms lets you appreciate the big differences and the comparative advantages of each. Relatively more time is spent on the asymmetric methods, which takes us into public key cryptography. Yes, this might seem like magic the first time you meet it, but it rests on the simple asymmetry between the computational cost of multiplying two [prime] numbers to get a resultant product and the cost of starting with that product and trying to find the primes that produced it. But from the videos the take home message is that you don't need to remember, or even understand in the first place, any intricate maths to follow how PKI is implemented.

The steganography lesson demonstrates how steg is fundamentally different from cryptography. As you will find from the lesson, cryptography is about hiding data by encrypting it; however the resultant encrypted bits are assumed to be known to an attacker to be encrypted. Whereas steg tries to hide the very existence of a secret by obscuring it in low order bits of another message [like an image].

Of all the lessons, the one on steg is really only for your general interest. In day to day computer security tasks, steg is rarely used or met. It's just something to be aware of, as a pedagogic construct.

3.0 out of 5 stars Why Steganography?, April 18, 2011

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This review is from: CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 Video Mentor (Paperback)

I purchased the SSCP Video Mentor to prepare for the cert exam but was not satisfied. I purchased this Video Mentor again to prepare for the exam hoping this one would be better than the other one, but I was still not satisfied. The presenter was talking very fast in the first 5 lessons, just like he was reading from scripts; it was kind of hard to follow. Sometimes what he presented was different from what was on slides.

In addition, I did not understand why there was a lesson for Steganography. Was it more important than any other domains, i.e., Access Control, Assessment & Audit, Organizational Security, etc? Furthermore, there were only 65 pages rather than 96 pages as advertised.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Video Presentation, March 16, 2011

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This review is from: CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 Video Mentor (Paperback)

This DVD package is part of a complete library of books, online services, and videos designed to help security professionals enhance their skills and prepare for their certification exams. Every product in this series reflects Shon Harris's unsurpassed experience in teaching IT security professionals.

Detailed lessons: Each video begins with a lesson that covers Security+ concepts that will be demonstrated in the lab portions of the videos. Lab examples: Walk through labs with the presenter to learn important setups and configurations. Commands: Go beyond the graphical interface with important commands.

My recommendation is that you use this DVD as a quick introduction to the then study at least one traditional book on this exam. This could be a book by Shon Harris (who did this video presentation) or perhaps you'd rather get a book by a different author that would cover the same material but use different words, different presentations.