COMPTIA SECURITY+ OPENS THE DOOR TO YOUR CYBERSECURITY CAREER!

CompTIA Security+ is a global certification that validates the baseline skills learners need to perform core security functions.

Why CompTIA Security+

Cybersecurity attacks continue to grow. Increasingly, more job roles are tasked with baseline security readiness and response to address today’s threats. Updates to Security+ reflect skills relevant to these job roles and prepare candidates to be more proactive in preventing the next attack. The updated version of Security+ 601 ensures organizations have talent with the latest skills and competencies needed to improve baseline security readiness and incident response by applying today’s current best practices for addressing the latest attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities.

TRAIN THE WAY YOU WANT!

  • Online Instructor Lead

  • In person

  • Online Self Paced

Why CompTIA?

Certification validates your skills and is proof that you have mastered the knowledge covered in training. CompTIA Security+ is the industry standard for establishing a career in security and is the preferred qualifying credential for early career cybersecurity professionals.

About The Exam

CompTIA Security+ is the first security certification a candidate should earn. It establishes the core knowledge required of any cybersecurity role and provides a springboard to intermediate-level cybersecurity jobs. Security+ incorporates best practices in hands-on troubleshooting, ensuring candidates have practical security problem-solving skills required to:

  • Assess the security posture of an enterprise environment and recommend and implement appropriate security solutions

  • Monitor and secure hybrid environments, including cloud, mobile, and IoT

  • Operate with an awareness of applicable laws and policies, including principles of governance, risk, and compliance

  • Identify, analyze, and respond to security events and incidents

    Security+ is compliant with ISO 17024 standards and approved by the US DoD to meet directive 8140/8570.01-M requirements. Regulators and government rely on ANSI accreditation, because it provides confidence and trust in the outputs of an accredited program. Over 2.3 million CompTIA ISO/ANSI-accredited exams have been delivered since January 1, 2011.

What Skills Will You Learn?

Attacks, Threats and Vulnerabilities

Focusing on more threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities on the Internet from newer custom devices that must be mitigated, such as IoT and embedded devices, newer DDoS attacks, and social engineering attacks based on current events


Architecture and Design

Includes coverage of enterprise environments and reliance on the cloud, which is growing quickly as organizations transition to hybrid networks.


Implementation

Expanded to focus on administering identity, access management, PKI, basic cryptography, wireless, and end-to-end security.


Operations and Incident Response

Covering organizational security assessment and incident response procedures, such as basic threat detection, risk mitigation techniques, security controls, and basic digital forensics.


Governance, Risk and Compliance

Expanded to support organizational risk management and compliance to regulations, such as PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, and CCPA.

Organizations that have contributed to the development of Security+

  • Target

  • Netflix

  • Center For Information Warfare Training

  • General Dynamics

  • Splunk>

  • Johns Hopkins University

Jobs that use CompTIA Security+

  • Security Administrator

  • Helpdesk Manager / Analyst

  • Security Engineer / Analyst

  • IT Auditors

  • Systems Administrator

  • Network / Cloud Engineer

  • DevOps / Software Developer

  • IT Project Manager

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AuthorLaurie Carey