Chapter 14
Network Threats and Mitigation
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA NETWORK+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
✓ 3.3 Explain common scanning, monitoring, and patching processes and summarize their expected outputs
- Port scanning
- Patch management—Rollback
- Reviewing baselines
✓ 3.5 Identify policies and best practices
- Licensing restrictions
- International export controls
- Incident response policies
- System life cycle
- Asset disposal
✓ 4.1 Summarize the purposes of physical security devices
- Detection
- Motion detection
- Video surveillance
- Asset tracking tags
- Tamper detection
✓ 4.3 Given a scenario, secure a basic wireless network
- WPA
- WPA2
✓ 4.4 Summarize common networking attacks
- DoS
- Reflective
- Amplified
- Distributed
- Social engineering
- Insider threat
- Logic bomb
- Rogue access point
- Evil twin
- War-driving
- Phishing
- Ransomware
- DNS poisoning
- ARP poisoning
- Spoofing
- Deauthentication
- Brute force
- VLAN hopping
- Man-in-the-middle
- Exploits...
