SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 9

Controls and Countermeasures

In this chapter, you will learn about

•  Security controls, safeguards, and countermeasures

•  Differences between deterrent, preventive, detective, corrective, and compensating controls

•  Differences between administrative, technical, and physical controls

•  Common steps to harden systems

•  Differences between policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines

•  Basic controls such as change control, configuration management, and patching systems

•  Mobile device management methods and other endpoint device security concepts

•  Use of RAID subsystems to provide fault tolerance

•  Use of failover of clusters to protect against the failure of a server

•  Load balancing methods such as round robin and source ...