From the course: CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) (CAS-004) Cert Prep

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From the course: CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) (CAS-004) Cert Prep

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- Welcome to this course on the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner certification, better known as the CASP+ certification. This certification is considered an advanced level certification for technical professionals who wish to remain immersed in technology as opposed to strictly moving into a more managerial career. Now, the CASP+ certification validates your advanced level competency in risk management, enterprise security operations and architecture, research and collaboration, and the integration of enterprise security in your organizational networks. This certification covers the technical knowledge and skills that are required to conceptualize, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments in the support of a more resilient enterprise. Now, this certification is designed for advanced level security professionals with at least five years of broad hands-on security experience, or those who have been working in the IT realm as a technician for at least 10 years. Now, prior to taking the CASP+ exam, it is recommended that you have already completed your Security+, CySA+, and PenTest+ exams, but that is a recommendation, and not a strict requirement. On the CASP+ exam, knowledge from these exams is considered assumed knowledge, so we're not going to be reteaching all of that content here. Instead, we're going to be building upon that foundational knowledge of computer security, security analysis, and penetration testing throughout this course. But don't worry, we're also going to review any areas specific to the CASP+ exam that you may need to know about throughout this course. Now, before we begin studying for the exam, I want to give you my four tips for success in this course that are going to help you better study for your exam. Now, first, we provide closed captions for every video in this course that's captioned by a real human to ensure a high level of accuracy. That way, you can follow along. Now, many of my students who speak English as their second language really love having these closed captions available so they can read along as I'm teaching. To turn them on, just click on the CC button in the bottom of your video player. There's also a transcript available with each video that you can access and search for specific keywords or phrases within that video if you need to. Also, when it comes to speaking, some people say that I speak too fast, and others say I speak too slow. Either way, you can control the speed of instruction by adjusting your playback speed. If I happen to be talking too fast for you, you can slow me down to .75, or 75%. If I'm talking too slowly for you, you can speed me up by putting me at 1.5x, or 150%. Either way, faster or slower, the choice is yours so that you can learn most effectively. Now, next, I want to point out that we have all the information that I'm going to teach to you in this course available as a downloadable study guide in PDF format. In lesson two of the course, you can download it, print it out, and then use it to take notes on or highlight and circle things as we cover the information in this course. This PDF is a great tool for offline studying before you take your final exam, as well, because you're going to be able to easily see all your notes in one place. Finally, I want you to know that we have a Facebook group set up specifically to help you succeed with this and your other certification exams. If you have any questions, or you get stuck on something, or maybe you just want to talk to other students who are studying for the same exam, you can do all of this by going to facebook.com/groups/diontraining. If you join the group on Facebook, we have people ready to answer your questions anytime of the day or night, because we have thousands and thousands of students there. If you join the group on Facebook, we have people ready to answer any questions you might have, as well as having other students who are there to help you, as well. Currently, we have over 25,000 students in our group, so if you have a question about the CASP+ exam or any of the course content, I guarantee somebody is going to be there to answer that for you quickly. Now, if you don't have Facebook and you need help, you can always email me at support@diontraining.com. When you do this, your message will come in, get logged, and it'll get routed to either me or one of my assistants to respond to during normal working hours. All right, let's get started learning all about the CASP+ exam and Domain 1: Security Architecture. (gentle buzzing)

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