Chapter 6

Educating and Protecting the User

The Following CompTIA Security+ Exam Objectives Are Covered in This Chapter:

  • 2.4 Explain the importance of security related awareness and training.
    • Security policy training and procedures
    • Personally identifiable information
    • Information classification: Sensitivity of data (hard or soft)
    • Data labeling, handling, and disposal
    • Compliance with laws, best practices, and standards
    • User habits: Password behaviors; Data handling; Clean desk policies; Prevent tailgating; Personally owned devices
    • Threat awareness: New viruses; Phishing attacks; Zero days exploits
    • Use of social networking and P2P
  • 3.2 Analyze and differentiate among types of attacks.
    • Vishing
    • Malicious insider threat
  • 3.3 Analyze and differentiate ...

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