Security Introduction

Answer 1

This section of the Security Fundamentals domain will briefly cover security controls, as they will be covered in greater detail throughout the course. We will take a look at the following:

Physical Security Controls (Deterrents, access controls, monitoring controls)
Network Security Controls (Firewalls, NIPS, NIDS, SIEM, NAC)
Endpoint Security Controls (HIPS, HIDS, EDR, Anti-Virus, SIEM)
Email Security Controls (Spam filters, DLP, email scanning)

Although this section is looking at security controls grouped by where they are deployed (such as on a device, on the network, etc), security controls are actually categorized into three main groups; technical, administrative, and physical. We’ll cover this in more detail soon!

Question 2

Learning Objectives

Answer 2

By the end of this section you will have achieved the following objectives:

Understand the basics of physical, network, host, and email security technologies.
Explain what the different security controls do to reduce risk and protect the organization.
Build a foundation of security controls that will be developed throughout the course.