Chapter 17

Understanding Security Alerting and Monitoring Concepts and Tools

This chapter covers the following topics related to Objective 4.4 (Explain security alerting and monitoring concepts and tools) of the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 certification exam:

This chapter focuses on the essentials of security alerting and monitoring. It explores how to monitor computing systems, applications, and infrastructure and discusses key activities such as log aggregation, alerting, and scanning. This chapter also delves into tools like Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) and security information and event management (SIEM) systems.

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