IT Security/Host/Environmental Mitigation

This lesson covers environmental mitigation.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the environmental mitigation portion of Security+ certification include:

Compare and contrast alternative methods to mitigate security risks in static environments.

• Environments
  • SCADA
  • Embedded (Printer, Smart TV, HVAC control)
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Mainframe
  • Game consoles
  • In-vehicle computing systems
• Methods
  • Network segmentation
  • Security layers
  • Application firewalls
  • Manual updates
  • Firmware version control
  • Wrappers
  • Control redundancy and diversity

Multimedia

1. YouTube: Embedded System Security - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 4.5
2. YouTube: Static OS Environments - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 4.5
3. YouTube: Mitigating Risk in Static Environments - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 4.5