CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Exam Cram, 6th Edition

Chapter 7

Security Assessment Techniques

This chapter covers the following official Security+ exam objective:

• ▶ 1.7 Summarize the techniques used in security assessments.

Essential Terms and Components

• ▶ threat hunting

• ▶ vulnerability scan

• ▶ CVE/CVSS

• ▶ security information and event management (SIEM)

• ▶ security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR)

A number of tools and techniques are available to help organizations conduct security assessment. Identifying vulnerabilities and threats is key to maintaining organizational security. In addition to identifying vulnerabilities, organizations need an approach to assess threats against their systems. A myriad of solutions are available. In the past, an organization first needed to ...