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CASP+ (CAS-004) Exam Crash Course

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

In this course, you’ll:

  • Understand the tools you’ll need to be a success as a security professional
  • Review the four domains of the CASP+ (CAS-004) exam
  • Get specific test-taking strategies for the CASP+

Course description

The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) certification is an international, vendor-neutral cybersecurity exam that certifies the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments in support of a resilient enterprise while considering the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements. The US Department of Defense has approved CASP+ to meet 8570 requirements.

Join security expert Dean Bushmiller to find out from his knowledgeable perspective what it takes to prepare for and pass the exam to achieve CompTIA's mastery-level certification and qualify for many of the 500,000 cybersecurity jobs available today.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Demonstrate your ability to securely integrate computing, communications, and business disciplines
  • Build a study plan for passing the exam on the first attempt

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a cybersecurity professional.
  • You need a plan for passing CASP+.
  • You want to improve your cybersecurity skills.

Prerequisites

Recommended preparation:

  • Read the course documentation (GitHub repository)
  • Create an AWS account for the full lab environment
  • Set up your lab environment from GitHub

Recommended follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1

Preparing for class (30 minutes)

  • Presentation: How to get the most from class, the interface, and the recording; mindmaps on GitHub; AWS setup; Mentimeter; three variables of exam preparation; Why do this alone?; timeline; mode; Dean’s plan
  • Hands-on exercise: Navigate shared content on O’Reilly and GitHub
  • Q&A
  • Presentation: General exam attack techniques; Am I ready for this content or do I need a review?

Tools for the plan (30 minutes)

  • Presentation: Rent or build your own: all in one is NOT; quizzes; labs; readings; glossaries and notecards
  • Q&A
  • Break

Overview of the CASP+ certification (30 minutes)

  • Presentation: What is the exam like?; How hard is it?; CASP value in the market; career path and job description after certification; signing up for the exam; What is the plan for passing?
  • Q&A

Risk management (75 minutes)

  • Presentation: Summarize business and industry influences and associated security risks; compare and contrast security, privacy policies, and procedures based on requirements; execute risk mitigation strategies and controls; analyze risk metric scenarios to secure the enterprise; exam attack techniques
  • Hands-on exercise: Identify trouble spots
  • Break

Enterprise security architecture (75 minutes)

  • Presentation: Integrate network and security components, concepts, and architectures to meet requirements; integrate security controls for mobile and small-form factor devices to meet requirements; given software vulnerability scenarios, select appropriate security controls; exam attack techniques
  • Hands-on exercise

Day 2

Enterprise security operations (80 minutes)

  • Presentation: Conduct a security assessment using the appropriate methods; analyze a scenario or output, and select the appropriate tool for a security assessment; implement incident response and recovery procedures; exam attack techniques
  • Hands-on exercise
  • Break

Technical integration of enterprise security (80 minutes)

  • Presentation: Integrate hosts, storage, networks, and applications into a secure enterprise architecture; integrate cloud and virtualization technologies into a secure enterprise architecture; integrate and troubleshoot authentication and authorization technologies to support objectives; implement cryptographic techniques; select the appropriate control to secure communications and collaboration solutions; exam attack techniques
  • Hands-on exercise
  • Break

Research, development, and collaboration (80 minutes)

  • Presentation: Apply research methods to determine industry trends and their impact on the enterprise; implement security activities across the technology life cycle; explain the importance of interaction across diverse business units to achieve security goals; exam attack techniques
  • Hands-on exercise
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

Dean Bushmiller

Dean Bushmiller consults on cybersecurity, incident response, and penetration testing and is using AI to build and secure learning platforms. He’s been teaching cybersecurity since 1999, has over 1,000 hours of recorded cybersecurity training, and a lifetime instructor approval rating of over 90%. He has also achieved more than 36 major cybersecurity certifications and passed over 100 certification exams.

Dean built the full library of NICE framework knowledge statements, which includes over 600 basic, intermediate, and advanced cybersecurity topics in an easy one-hour online format. Though he’s not a member of the military, he has had the honor to train the US military since 1999. In recognition for outstanding service in the information assurance field, he has received eight mission coins.

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Skill covered

CompTIA CASP+ (Advanced Security Practitioner)