Security+: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations

Threat actors and motivations, threat vectors, vulnerability types, indicators of malicious activity, AI-related risks and the mitigations that address them.

COMP-141 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · CompTIA Certification Prep

Course content

  1. 1Threat actors and motivationsComing
  2. 2Threat vectors and attack surfacesComing
  3. 3Social engineering and human riskComing
  4. 4Application and operating system vulnerabilitiesComing
  5. 5Cloud, mobile and supply chain vulnerabilitiesComing
  6. 6Malware categories and indicatorsComing
  7. 7Indicators of network and password attacksComing
  8. 8Risks from AI and large language modelsComing
  9. 9Segmentation and access control as mitigationsComing
  10. 10Patching, configuration and hardeningComing
  11. 11Monitoring and least privilegeComing
  12. 12Matching mitigations to threatsComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

Threat actors and motivations, threat vectors, vulnerability types, indicators of malicious activity, AI-related risks and the mitigations that address them.