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CompTIA Security+: Threat Actors & Vectors

Gain insight into present threatscape with focus on threat actor types and motivations. Learn about human vectors, social engineering, and vulnerabilities across systems and platforms.

  • Skill level

    Beginner
  • Time to complete

    Approx. 1 hour
  • Certificate of completion

    Yes
  • Prerequisites

    None

About this course

One of the primary goals for an emerging security practitioner is to have a firm grasp of the present threatscape. The learner will build this vital knowledge base in this course. In this course, we will explore threat actor types, attributes, and motivations. Next, we will dive into the use of human vectors and social engineering as well as common attack surfaces. Then we will explore supply chain, application, and O/S and web-based vulnerabilities. Finally, we will cover hardware and virtualization vulnerabilities, cloud vulnerabilities, and mobile device vulnerabilities. This course is part of a series that prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam.

Learning objectives

  • Discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • Compare threat actor types including nation-state, unskilled attacker, hacktivist, insider threat, and organized crime, and attributes such as internal/external, resources/funding, sophistication, and capability levels
  • Define threat actor motivations such as data exfiltration, espionage, service disruption, blackmail, financial gain, political beliefs, ethical, revenge, disruption/chaos, and war

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