IT Security/Access Control/Account Management

This lesson covers account management.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the account management portion of Security+ certification include:

Install and configure security controls when performing account management, based on best practices.

• Mitigate issues associated with users with multiple account/roles and/or shared accounts
• Account policy enforcement
  • Credential management
  • Group policy
  • Password complexity
  • Expiration
  • Recovery
  • Disablement
  • Lockout
  • Password history
  • Password reuse
  • Password length
  • Generic account prohibition
• Group based privileges
• User assigned privileges
• User access reviews
• Continuous monitoring

Multimedia

1. YouTube: Roles and Account Credentials - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
2. YouTube: Group Policy - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
3. YouTube: Managing Password Policies - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
4. YouTube: Privileges - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
5. YouTube: User Access Reviews and Monitoring - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3