Computer Support/Security/Best Practices
This lesson covers security best practices.
Objectives and Skills
[edit | edit source]Objectives and skills for the security best practices portion of A+ certification include:[1]
- 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
- Password best practices