Overview
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Prepare for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification exam. Review the objectives from Domain 7, Systems and Application Security.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Systems and application security
- Comparing viruses, worms, and Trojans
- Comparing adware, spyware, and ransomware
- Understanding backdoors and logic bombs
- Looking at advanced malware
- Understanding botnets
- Denial of service attacks
- Eavesdropping attacks
- Network attacks
- Defending against password attacks
- Watering hole attacks
- Preventing insider threats
- Social engineering
- Impersonation attacks
- Physical social engineering
- Operating system security
- Malware prevention
- Application management
- Host-based network security controls
- Error and exception handling
- Code repositories
- Third-party code
- Code signing
- Mobile device security
- Mobile device management
- Mobile device tracking
- Mobile application security
- Bring your own device (BYOD)
- Virtualization
- Virtualization security
- Desktop and application virtualization
- Physical and virtual appliances
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Port isolation
- Cloud computing models
- Public cloud tiers
- Cloud service models
- Securing the cloud
- Regulatory and privacy concerns in the cloud
- Big data security
- What's next?
