The CompTIA Security+ is an industry-standard, well-recognized certification that covers the skills needed to succeed in a cybersecurity career. In this course, we'll go over the second domain of topics covered in the exam: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations. We'll start by taking a look at the various types of threat actors and attackers, and some of their various motivations. In addition, you'll learn about various attack surfaces and threat vectors and some methods to protect them. We'll cover several different types of vulnerabilities from application vulnerabilities to hardware and physical ones, in addition to the multiple types of attacks that can target these various vulnerabilities. To wrap up this second domain, you'll learn about how to spot possible malicious activity, and how to introduce some mitigations and hardening techniques to better protect an organization's infrastructure.
