Security+
CompTIA Security+ validates the essential skills needed for a career in cybersecurity. Build practical expertise in securing networks, applications, and devices, protecting critical data, and tackling real-world security challenges.
Overview
CompTIA Security+ is the premier global certification that establishes the essential skills required for core security functions and a career in IT security. It showcases professionals' capabilities in securing networks, applications, and devices, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and availability.
CompTIA Security+ focuses on practical, hands-on skills to tackle real-world challenges. As the most widely recognized credential, it is invaluable for advancing in the dynamic field of cybersecurity.
Skills You'll Learn
- Identify various types of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities, including malware, social engineering, and application attacks.
- Utilize security technologies and tools, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and endpoint security, to protect systems.
- Design secure network architectures, implement secure systems, and apply secure protocols for architecture and design.
- Manage identity and access concepts, including authentication, authorization, and accounting, to ensure secure access control.
- Assess and manage risk through risk analysis, mitigation strategies, and business continuity planning.
- Apply cryptography concepts, including encryption algorithms, public key infrastructure (PKI), and digital signatures, to secure data.
- Implement compliance and operational security measures, including security policies, procedures, and best practices.
Exam Details
- Duration:90 minutes
- Number of questions:maximum of 90, a mix of multiple-choice and performance-based questions
- Passing score:750 (on a scale of 100–900)
- Recommended experience:CompTIA Network+ and two years of experience working in a security/ systems administrator job role
- Languages:English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai
- DoD 8140 work roles:cyber defense analyst, incident responder, vulnerability analyst, security control assessor, system administrator, network specialist, systems planner, IT project manager, information security manager, secure software assessor, and many more
- Retirement:usually three years after launch (estimated 2026)
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