SecurityX is a certification for technical professionals who wish to remain immersed in technology as opposed to strictly managing.
SecurityX validates advanced-level competency in the following areas:
- Risk management, enterprise security operations, and architecture
- Research and Collaboration
- Integration of enterprise security
SecurityX is the only hands-on, performance-based certification for practitioners—not managers—at an advanced skill level of cybersecurity. The difference is that while cybersecurity managers help identify what policies and frameworks could be implemented, SecurityX-certified professionals figure out how to get the job done.
What job roles should take the exam?
SecurityX is for IT cybersecurity professionals with a minimum of 10 years of experience in IT administration, including at least 5 years of hands-on technical security experience. SecurityX prepares candidates for the following job roles:
- Security Architect
- Security Engineer
- Application security engineer
What is on the exam?
Skills covered in SecurityX address current risks and incident response scenarios inherent in cyber warfare, modern hacking techniques, and cloud migration. CASP+ covers the technical knowledge and skills required to conceptualize, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise. Successful candidates will have the skills to do the following:
- Support IT governance in the enterprise with an emphasis on managing risk
- Leverage collaboration tools and technology to support enterprise security
- Use research and analysis to secure the enterprise
- Integrate advanced authentication and authorization techniques
- Implement cryptographic techniques
- Implement security controls for hosts
- Implement security controls for mobile devices
- Implement network security
- Implement security in the systems and software development lifecycle
- Integrate hosts, storage, networks, applications, virtual environments, and cloud technologies in a secure enterprise architecture
- Conduct security assessments
- Respond to and recover from security incidents
The SecurityX exam covers the following domains and topics:
- Risk management: Summarize business and industry influences and associated security risks
- Technical integration of enterprise security: Integrate cloud and virtualization technologies into a secure enterprise architecture
- Enterprise security architecture: Analyze a scenario and integrate network and security components, concepts, and architectures to meet security requirements
- research, development, and collaboration: Given a scenario, apply research methods to determine industry trends and their impact on the enterprise
- Enterprise security operations: Analyze a scenario or output and select the appropriate tool for a security assessment
Review the detailed exam objectives.
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