Threats, Vulnerabilities & Mitigations

Domain 2 of the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam, worth 22% of your score.

6 topics 4 free to read

• Threat Actors & Motivations
  Understand who the adversaries are, their capabilities, resources, and what drives their attacks.
• Threat Vectors & Attack Surfaces
  How attackers gain initial access — the pathways and surfaces they exploit.
• Vulnerability Types

  Categories of vulnerabilities across applications, OS, hardware, cloud, and cryptographic implementations.
• Indicators of Malicious Activity

  Recognize and classify malware types, network attacks, application attacks, and physical attack indicators.
• Mitigation Techniques
  Apply mitigation strategies to reduce the risk from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Acronyms - Threats, Vulnerabilities & Mitigations
  Threat actors, attack techniques, vulnerability classes and mitigations, with the distinctions that separate the ones whose names sound…