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Security Operations for CompTIA SecurityX

by Brandon DeVault

Learn the essential skills needed for advanced security operations. This course will teach you the analytical and practical skills needed for the CompTIA SecurityX exam.

What you'll learn

Modern organizations face increasingly sophisticated security threats. In this course, Security Operations for CompTIA SecurityX, you’ll learn to master advanced security operations techniques. First, you’ll explore how to analyze data to enable monitoring and response activities. Next, you’ll discover methods to analyze vulnerabilities and recommend solutions to reduce the attack surface. Finally, you’ll learn how to apply threat-hunting and threat-intelligence concepts and analyze data and artifacts in support of incident response activities. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of advanced security operations needed for the CompTIA SecurityX exam.

About the author

Brandon DeVault is a Security Researcher focused on threat hunting at CrowdStrike. He is also a member of the Florida Air National Guard with a variety of offensive and defensive experience. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Brandon worked full-time as an author with Pluralsight and at Elastic, creating and delivering security content. He also worked with Special Operations Command, where he had two deployments to Afghanistan on deployable communications teams. His experience spans incident response... more

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