IT Security/Operational/Best Practices

This lesson covers risk management best practices.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the risk management best practies portion of Security+ certification include:^[1]

Summarize risk management best practices.

• Business continuity concepts
  • Business impact analysis
  • Identification of critical systems and components
  • Removing single points of failure
  • Business continuity planning and testing
  • Risk assessment
  • Continuity of operations
  • Disaster recovery
  • IT contingency planning
  • Succession planning
  • High availability
  • Redundancy
  • Tabletop exercises
• Fault tolerance
  • Hardware
  • RAID
  • Clustering
  • Load balancing
  • Servers
• Disaster recovery concepts
  • Backup plans/policies
  • Backup execution/frequency
  • Cold site
  • Hot site
  • Warm site

Multimedia

1. Watch YouTube: Business Impact Analysis - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
2. Watch YouTube: Critical Systems and Components - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
3. Watch YouTube: Redundancy and Single Points of Failure - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
4. Watch YouTube: Continuity of Operations - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
5. Watch YouTube: Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
6. Watch YouTube: IT Contingency Planning - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
7. Watch YouTube: Succession Planning - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
8. Watch YouTube: Tabletop Exercises - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
9. Watch YouTube: Redundancy, Fault Tolerance, and High Availability - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.
10. Watch YouTube: Cold Site, Hot Site, and Warm Site - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 2.8.

References