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: software (mdadm) or hardware
  • Clustering
  • Load balancing
  • Servers
• Disaster recovery concepts
  • Backup plans/policies
  • Backup execution/frequency
  • Cold site
  • Hot site
  • Warm site

Readings

Multimedia

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

Activities

See Also

• Gov.au: Essential Eight Maturity Model

References