Your career as a Penetration Tester begins here with the NEW CompTIA PenTest+ Certification Kit! Includes CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide AND CompTIA PenTest+ Practice Tests!
About the CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide
Penetration testers simulate cyber attacks to find security weaknesses in networks, operating systems, and applications. Information security experts worldwide use penetration techniques to evaluate enterprise defenses. Typical penetration testing consists of low-level hackers attacking a system with a list of known vulnerabilities, and defenders preventing those hacks using an equally well-known list of defensive scans. In CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide: Exam PT0-001, you're introduced to the core skills and techniques that every pen tester needs:
- Perform assessments of traditional server and desktop operating systems as well as new types of network devices, including mobile, cloud, IoT, industrial, and embedded
- Identify security weaknesses
- Manage system vulnerabilities
- Determine if existing cybersecurity practices deviate from accepted practices, configurations and policies
About the CompTIA PenTest+ Practice Tests
This book provides five unique practice tests, covering the five CompTIA PenTest+ objective domains, PLUS two additional practice exams, for a total of 1000 practice test questions. Coverage of all exam objective domains includes:
- Planning and Scoping
- Information Gathering and Vulnerability Identification
- Attacks and Exploits
- Penetration Testing Tools
- Reporting and Communication
This book helps you gain the confidence you need for taking the CompTIA PenTest+ Exam PT0-001. The practice test questions prepare you for test success.
Readers will also have access to additional online study tools, including hundreds of bonus practice exam questions, electronic flashcards, and a searchable Glossary of important terms. Prepare smarter with Sybex's superior interactive online learning environment and test bank.
About the Author: Mike Chapple, Ph.D., Security+, is Senior Director for IT Service Delivery at Notre Dame overseeing information security, data governance, IT architecture, project management, strategic planning and product management functions and teaches undergraduate courses on Information Security. Mike spent 4 years in the information security research group at NSA and served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. He is a technical editor for Information Security Magazine and has written several books.
David Seidl, Security+, GPEN, GCIH is the Senior Director for Campus Technology Services at the University of Notre Dame. As the Senior Director for CTS, David is responsible for central platform and operating system support, database administration and services, identity and access management, application services, and email and digital signage. During his 18 year IT career, he has served in a variety of technical and information security roles including leading Notre Dame's information security team as Notre Dame's Director of Information Security. He currently teaches a popular course on networking and security for Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
Crystal Panek (Farmington, NH) holdsMCP, MCP+I, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCDBA certifications. For many years she trained as a contract instructor teaching at such places as the MicroC, Stellacon Corporation and the University of New Hampshire. She then became the vice-president for a large IT training company and for 15 years she developed training materials and courseware to help 1000's of students get through their certification exams. She currently works on a contract basis creating courseware for several large IT training facilities.
Robb Tracy (Santaquin, UT) is an experienced instructional designer and trainer in the e-learning industry. He has written several IT certification titles, including CompTIA Linux+/LPIC-1 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exams LX0-103 & LX0-104/101-400 & 102-400). He is the President at ACTbrainy, an ACT test prep e-learning company.
