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CompTIA SecurityX

Formerly known as CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+), CompTIA SecurityX is an expert-level cybersecurity certification for security architects and senior security engineers charged with leading and improving an enterprise’s cybersecurity readiness.

What you’ll learn

The most up-to-date advanced-level cybersecurity certification on the market, CompTIA SecurityX course covers both security architecture and engineering.

Formerly known as CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+), CompTIA SecurityX is the only hands-on, performance-based certification for advanced practitioners — not managers — that qualifies them to assess cyber readiness within an enterprise, and design and implement the proper solutions to ensure the organisation is ready for the next attack.

SecurityX covers technical skills in on-premises, cloud native, and hybrid environments, governance, risk, and compliance skills, assessing an enterprise’s cybersecurity readiness, and leading technical teams to implement enterprise-wide cybersecurity solutions.

This course is ideal for Security Architects, Senior Security Engineers, SOC Managers, Cyber Risk Analysts, and Chief Information Security Officers.

You’ll learn to:

  • Analyze security requirements in hybrid networks to work toward an enterprise-wide, zero trust security architecture with advanced secure cloud and virtualization solutions.

  • Address advanced threat management, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, incident response tactics and digital forensics analysis.

  • Prove an organization's overall cybersecurity resiliency metric and compliance to regulations, such as CMMC, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST and CCPA.

  • Understand configurations for endpoint security controls, enterprise mobility, cloud/hybrid environments, and enterprise-wide PKI and cryptographic solutions.

Curriculum

Module 1: Security Architecture

Module 2: Security Operations

Module 3: Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Module 4: Security Engineering and Cryptography

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have a minimum 10 years of general hands-on IT experience, 5 years being hands-on security, with Network+, Security+, CySA+, Cloud+ and PenTest+ or equivalent knowledge.

Exam info

At the end of this course, you'll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by our Certification Guarantee:

CompTIA SecurityX exam CAS-005 (formerly CASP+)


This exam covers the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise while considering the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements.

Duration: 165 minutes

Format: Multiple-choice and performance-based

Number of questions: 90 max

Passing score: This test has no scaled score; it's pass/fail only

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FAQs

This course is ideal for:

  • Security Architects

  • Senior Security Engineers

  • SOC Managers

  • Cyber Risk Analysts

  • Chief Information Security Officers

Yes, we do provide courses suitable for beginners. However, Firebrand's courses aren't easy and it's essential that you are interested and actively pursuing a career in IT.

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