CompTIA this week made available its CompTIA SecurityX certification program, which is an updated version of the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) cert and part of CompTIA’s Xpert Series of certifications.
SecurityX follows CompTIA’s release of DataX earlier this year, and it is designed for IT professionals with multiple years of work experience who want to validate their expert-level knowledge of business-critical technologies. The program will be useful for security architects and senior security engineers who work toward enterprise cybersecurity readiness goals, covering the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions, according to CompTIA.
“CompTIA SecurityX is the only hands-on, performance-based certification for advanced practitioners—not managers—at the advanced skill level of cybersecurity,” said Patrick Lane, director of cybersecurity product management at CompTIA, in a statement. “This program is the only certification on the market that qualifies technical leaders to assess cyber readiness within an enterprise and design and implement the proper solutions to ensure the organization is ready for the next attack.”
CompTIA says that the SecurityX certification program will teach professionals about:
- Security architecture: Analyze security requirements in hybrid networks to work toward an enterprise-wide, zero trust security architecture with advanced security cloud and virtualization solutions.
- Security operations: Address advanced threat management, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, incident response tactics, and digital forensic analysis.
- Governance, risk and compliance: Verify an organization’s overall cybersecurity resiliency metric and compliance to regulations such as CMMC, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, and CCPA.
- Security engineering and cryptography: Configurations for endpoint security controls, enterprise mobility, cloud/hybrid environments, and enterprise-wide PKI and cryptographic solutions.
SecurityX will cover technical skills for on-premises, cloud-native, and hybrid environments. The program can also certify technical leaders to assess cyber readiness within an enterprise organization and determine the proper solutions to prepare the organization for future attacks. The certification will validate the tasks performed by senior security engineers and security architect roles.
CompTIA SecurityX is compliant with ISO/ANSI 17024 standards and maps to DCWF work roles used by U.S. DoD Directive 8140.03M.
Available now, the SecurityX exam covers the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement security solutions across complex environments. The test features a maximum of 90 questions, both multiple-choice and performance-based. The test lasts 165 minutes, and it is graded as pass/fail only. CompTIA recommends IT professionals have a minimum 10 years of general hands-on IT experience, five years of hands-on security experience, and Network+, Security+, CySA+, Cloud+, and PenTest+ or equivalent knowledge.
CompTIA expects to release another certification program, CompTIA CloudNetX, in the coming months.
Source:: Network World