Objective:
- Students will be able to explain the importance of automation and orchestration in secure operations.
Standards:
CompTIA Security+ SYO-701 Objective:
4.7 – Explain the importance of automation and orchestration related to secure operations.
- Use cases of automation and scripting
- User provisioning
- Resource provisioning
- Guard rails
- Security groups
- Ticket creation
- Escalation
- Enabling/disabling services and access
- Continuous integration and testing
- Integrations and Applications programming interfaces (APIs)
- Benefits
- Efficiency/time saving
- Enforcing baselines
- Standard infrastructure configurations
- Scaling in a secure manner
- Employee retention
- Reaction time
- Workforce multiplier
- Other considerations
- Complexity
- Cost
- Single point of failure
- Technical debt
- Ongoing supportability
Guiding Question:
What is the importance of automation and orchestration in secure operations?
Resources:
- Lesson 4.7.1 – Scripting and Automation.pptx Presentation available on Google Classroom
Assignment:
- Read the 4.7.1 – Scripting and Automation.pptx presentation in today’s class.
- Complete the Unit 3 – Scripting and Automation Check for Understanding activity using the materials provided in Google Classroom.
Assigned: January 9th, 2026
Teacher Pacing Due Date: January 12th, 2026
Objective:
- Students will be able to analyze common architecture and infrastructure concepts.
Standards:
CompTIA Security+ SYO-701 Objective:
3.1 – Compare and contrast security implications of different architecture models
- Architecture and infrastructure concepts
- Cloud
- Responsibility matrix
- Hybrid considerations
- Third-party vendors
- Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Serverless
- Microservices
- Network infrastructure
- Physical isolation
- Logical segmentation
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- On-premises
- Centralized vs. decentralized
- Containerization
- Virtualization
- IoT
- Industrial control systems (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
- Real-time operating system (RTOS)
- Embedded systems
- High availability
Guiding Question:
What are common architecture and infrastructure concepts?
Resources:
- 3.1.1 – Architecture and Infrastructure Concepts.pptx Presentation available on Google Classroom
Assignment:
- Read the 3.1.1 – Architecture and Infrastructure Concepts.pptx presentation in today’s class.
- Complete the Unit 3 – Architecture and Infrastructure Concepts Check for Understanding activity using the materials provided in Google Classroom.
- Next, complete the Case Study – Specialized Systems Vulnerabilities Activity using the document and Form posted in the Google Classroom.
- Please do your best to complete the Case Study by end of day on Wednesday, January 7th.
Assigned: January 6th, 2026
Teacher Pacing Due Date: January 7th, 2026
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