Chapter 4: Domain 3: Security Architecture and Engineering

Abstract

Domain 3: Security Engineering represents a large and complex technical domain. The chapter presents cloud, virtualization, and micoroservices concepts. It describes key cryptographic concepts of authentication and non-repudiation in addition to confidentiality and integrity, which are concepts presented in many of the domains. Beyond the foundational operations such as substitution and permutation and types of cryptosystems, symmetric, asymmetric, and hashing, this chapter also introduces key modes of operation for symmetric cryptosystems, Electronic Code Book (ECB), Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), Cipher Feedback (CFB), Output Feedback (OFB), and Counter Mode (CTR). The goal ...

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