Computer Support/Security/Best Practices

This lesson covers security best practices.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the security best practices portion of A+ certification include:
 * Given a scenario, deploy and enforce security best practices to secure a workstation.
 * Password best practices
 * Setting strong passwords
 * Password expiration
 * Changing default user names/passwords
 * Screensaver required password
 * BIOS/UEFI passwords
 * Requiring passwords
 * Account management
 * Restricting user permissions
 * Login time restrictions
 * Disabling guest account
 * Failed attempts lockout
 * Timeout/screen lock
 * Disable autorun
 * Data encryption
 * Patch/update management

Readings

 * 1)  Password policy
 * 2)  AutoRun

Multimedia

 * 1) YouTube: Workstation Security Best Practices - CompTIA A+ 220-902 - 3.4