Security+
Security Essentials
(SY0-701)
Security+
This Security+ course is critical for anyone pursuing a cybersecurity career. We’ve designed this course to give students the basic technical skills required to work in this field. Through the use of engaging visual content, assessments, labs, and written content, students learn how to confidently assess the security of an enterprise environment, implement solutions, and apply this expertise when taking their certification exam.
Virtual labs
Hands-On Experience
This course provides a unique, hands-on environment that gives students the opportunity to implement the skills they are learning in real life scenarios. These labs allow students to experiment with different hosts, networks, and applications and test security measures to see how they would apply in a real-life scenario. Not only does this learning environment better prepare them for the future, it also gives them an opportunity to test new ideas and grow their overall understanding of cybersecurity.
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Ascend Education’s Security Essentials course is designed to equip students with the critical knowledge and skills required to excel in both the CompTIA Security+ certification exam and the Ascend Education Security Essentials exam. This course offers a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity, covering essential topics such as threat management, network security, and risk assessment, ensuring that students are well-prepared for industry demands.
For instructors, our courseware simplifies the teaching process by seamlessly integrating with your Learning Management System and offering easy customization to suit your specific needs. With built-in practice quizzes and a final exam that closely mirrors the actual certification test, students gain the confidence and experience needed to succeed on their Security Essentials and Security+ exams. This streamlined approach not only saves time on grading but also enhances student readiness, helping to set them on the path to a successful career in cybersecurity.
Course Summary
CompTIA Security+ is recognized as the introduction to network security industry standard, and the first step into a cybersecurity career. This certification covers foundational network security skills in risk assessment and management, forensics, security controls, and more. The student’s goal will be to learn core knowledge and skills required to assess the state of security in an enterprise environment and recommend and implement security solutions. Additionally, CompTIA Security+ is a DoD approved baseline certification and is required for any DoD cybersecurity role. Those with this certification may enter the IT workforce in several different capacities, i.e. system administrator, junior penetration tester or security engineer/analyst.
Recommended Prerequisites: A+ or equivalent experience.
Video Lessons
Virtual Labs
Text Lessons
Assessments
Quizzes
Practice Exam
Instructor Tools
Slides
Gradebook
Student Progress Tracking
LMS Deep Link Integration
Video Lessons
Virtual Labs
Text Lessons
Assessments
Quizzes
Practice Exam
Instructor Tools
Slides
Gradebook
Student Progress Tracking
LMS Deep Link Integration
Course Features
Virtual Labs
Virtual labs give students experience practicing and implementing the skills they will learn about in this Security+ course. These labs run on real hardware that enable students to develop the hands-on skills required in the cybersecurity industry. Within the sandbox environment, students can make mistakes and see how their actions affect a real system. This is different from a simulated lab where students are led through a simulated environment that has only one solution and a single path to accomplish a given task. A student’s access to a complete software and hardware resource helps them fully engage in discovery, solution finding, and problem solving. They will be able to earn their Security+ certification or final grade with a truly hands-on approach that prepares them for the workforce.
State-of-the-art videos
Ascend Education’s videos are engaging and present the most current content available in network security training. The format of our videos was designed by expert instructional designers in order to increase learning absorption; studies have shown that instructional videos that are less than 6 minutes in length result in improved learning.
The video content for this course includes definitions, examples, comparisons, an overview of difficult topics found in the text and thorough demonstrations of what is covered in the material. This format enhances a student’s learning experience and retention, preparing them for their Security+ certification exam and getting them job ready.
Textbook Quality Written Content
Written by leading industry experts, our online Security+ text material is designed to replace your textbook. The easy-to-follow structure of the text makes the life of the instructor and student easier. The detailed text lessons cover all the crucial topics necessary for students to pass their Security+ certification exam and gain the network security knowledge they need in order to advance in their education and career. The written content (along with all other course material) is delivered on a professionally designed LMS that automatically tracks their progress as they complete a given section.
Assessments
This Security+ course includes practice quizzes and a final exam prepared by industry experts. Practice quiz questions are found in each section of the course and will help students know which areas they are understanding well, and which areas they may need to work on before taking their final exam.
The comprehensive final exam was created to help teachers assess a student’s understanding of the material from the first module to the last. Each quiz and final exam is linked to the instructor gradebook, so a teacher can track each student’s progress and have automatic grading. Instructors can also set the number of tries for each quiz to give students a chance to go back and review material if necessary. These assessments save instructors countless hours of having to prepare and grade quizzes and exams by themselves.
Easy-to-use LMS
Each course is built on our professionally designed Learning Management System (LMS). Ascend Education’s courses can fully integrate with popular LMS’s including Canvas, Blackboard, D2L and others, making it easy to track progress and manage the learning success of a given student or class. All course materials are integrated using deep linking integration. In this way, it never appears to the student that they have left the “home” environment of their own LMS. In instances where a given school does not have an LMS or allows integration, Ascend is only too happy to host the course inside our own Learning Management System, including delivering all the instructor tools and helpers described here.
Instructor Slides
Instructor slides provide structure for lectures. This Security+ course has a downloadable slide deck that coordinates with instructional material in the course. Teachers can use the slides as they are or make any desired adjustments necessary to fit their planned lecture.
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Course Curriculum
What’s Covered in the Security+ SY0-701 Course Curriculum:
- Module 1: General Security Concepts
- Module 2: Cryptographic Solutions and Threats
- Module 3: Vulnerabilities, Indicators of Malicious Activity, and Mitigation
- Module 4: Secure Network and Cloud Infrastructures, and Data Protection
- Module 5: Resilience and Recovery, Secure Computing Resources, and Asset Management
- Module 6: Vulnerability Management, Alerting and Monitoring, and Enhancing Enterprise Security
- Module 7: Identity and Access Management, Automation and Orchestration, Incident Response, and Log Data
- Module 8: Governance and Risk Management
- Module 9: Compliance, Audits and Assessments, and Security Awareness
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