Security+ Certification/Objectives/Security Program Management and Oversight

5.1 Summarize elements of effective security governance.

• Guidelines
• Policies
  • Acceptable use policy (AUP)
  • Information security policies
  • Business continuity
  • Disaster recovery
  • Incident response
  • Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Change management
• Standards
  • Password
  • Access control
  • Physical security
  • Encryption
• Procedures
  • Change management
  • Onboarding/offboarding
  • Playbooks

• External considerations
  • Regulatory
  • Legal
  • Industry
  • Local/regional
  • National
  • Global
• Monitoring and revision
• Types of governance structures
  • Boards
  • Committees
  • Government entities
  • Centralized/decentralized
• Roles and responsibilities for systems and data
  • Owners
  • Controllers
  • Processors
  • Custodians/stewards

5.2 Explain elements of the risk management process

• Risk identification
• Risk assessment
  • Ad hoc
  • Recurring
  • One-time
  • Continuous
• Risk analysis
  • Qualitative
  • Quantitative
  • Single loss expectancy (SLE)
  • Annualized loss expectancy (ALE)
  • Annualized rate of occurrence (ARO)
  • Probability
  • Likelihood
  • Exposure factor
  • Impact
• Risk register
  • Key risk indicators
  • Risk owners
  • Risk threshold

• Risk tolerance
• Risk appetite
  • Expansionary
  • Conservative
  • Neutral
• Risk management strategies
  • Transfer
  • Accept
    • Exemption
    • Exception
  • Avoid
  • Mitigate
• Risk reporting
• Business impact analysis
  • Recovery time objective (RTO)
  • Recovery point objective (RPO)
  • Mean time to repair (MTTR)
  • Mean time between failures (MTBF)

5.3 Explain the processes associated with third-party risk assessment and management.

• Vendor assessment
  • Penetration testing
  • Right-to-audit clause
  • Evidence of internal audits
  • Independent assessments
  • Supply chain analysis
• Vendor selection
  • Due diligence
  • Conflict of interest

• Agreement types
  • Service-level agreement (SLA)
  • Memorandum of agreement (MOA)
  • Memorandum of understanding (MOU)
  • Master service agreement (MSA)
  • Work order (WO)/statement of work (SOW)
  • Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
  • Business partners agreement (BPA)
• Vendor monitoring
• Questionnaires
• Rules of engagement

5.4 Summarize elements of effective security compliance.

• Compliance reporting
  • Internal
  • External
• Consequences of non-compliance
  • Fines
  • Sanctions
  • Reputational damage
  • Loss of license
  • Contractual impacts
• Compliance monitoring
  • Due diligence/care
  • Attestation and acknowledgement
  • Internal and external
  • Automation

• Privacy
  • Legal implications
    • Local/regional
    • National
    • Global
  • Data subject
  • Controller vs. processor
  • Ownership
  • Data inventory and retention
  • Right to be forgotten

5.5 Explain types and purposes of audits and assessments.

• Attestation
• Internal
  • Compliance
  • Audit committee
  • Self-assessments
• External
  • Regulatory
  • Examinations
  • Assessment
  • Independent third-party audit

• Penetration testing
  • Physical
  • Offensive
  • Defensive
  • Integrated
  • Known environment
  • Partially known environment
  • Unknown environment
  • Reconnaissance
    • Passive
    • Active

5.6 Given a scenario, implement security awareness practices.

• Phishing
  • Campaigns
  • Recognizing a phishing attempt
  • Responding to reported suspicious messages
• Anomalous behavior recognition
  • Risky
  • Unexpected
  • Unintentional

• User guidance and training
  • Policy/handbooks
  • Situational awareness
  • Insider threat
  • Password management
  • Removable media and cables
  • Social engineering
  • Operational security
  • Hybrid/remote work environments
• Reporting and monitoring
  • Initial
  • Recurring
• Development
• Execution