IT Security/Threats/Testing

This lesson covers security testing.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the security testing portion of Security+ certification include:
 * Explain the proper use of penetration testing versus vulnerability scanning.
 * Penetration testing
 * Verify a threat exists
 * Bypass security controls
 * Actively test security controls
 * Exploiting vulnerabilities
 * Vulnerability scanning
 * Passively testing security controls
 * Identify vulnerability
 * Identify lack of security controls
 * Identify common misconfigurations
 * Intrusive vs. non-intrusive
 * Credentialed vs. non-credentialed
 * False positive
 * Black box
 * White box
 * Gray box

Multimedia

 * 1) YouTube: Penetration Testing - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.8
 * 2) YouTube: Vulnerability Scanning - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 3.8