About this course
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) is an advanced-level cybersecurity certification for security architects and senior security engineers charged with leading and improving an enterprise’s cybersecurity readiness.
CASP+ 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
This course is 40 class hours, typically consisting of (10) 4-hour sessions with additional hours for Lab and practice assessments
Benefits
- Security Architecture
- Analyze security requirements in hybrid networks to work toward an enterprise-wide, zero trust security architecture with advanced secure cloud and virtualization solutions.
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance
- Prove an organization’s overall cybersecurity resiliency metric and compliance to regulations, such as CMMC, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST and CCPA
- Security Operations
- Address advanced threat management, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, incident response tactics and digital forensics analysis
- Security Engineering and Cryptography
- Configurations for endpoint security controls, enterprise mobility, cloud/hybrid environments, and enterprise-wide PKI and cryptographic solutions
Who should take this course?
The CompTIA CASP+ certification exam will verify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to:
- Architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise
- Use monitoring, detection, incident response, and automation to proactively support ongoing security operations in an enterprise environment
- Apply security practices to cloud, on-premises, endpoint, and mobile infrastructure, while considering cryptographic technologies and techniques
- Consider the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements throughout the enterprise
This is equivalent to at least ten years of general hands-on IT experience, with at least five of those years being broad hands-on security experience. These content examples are meant to clarify the test objectives and should not be construed as a comprehensive listing of all the content of this examination.
Class Details
Exam Objectives:
Required exam: CAS-004
Number of questions: Maximum of 90
Types of questions: Multiple-choice and performance-based
Length of test: 165 minutes
- Recommended experience
- Minimum of ten years of general hands-on IT experience, with at least five of those years being broad hands-on IT security experience
- Network+, Security+, CySA+, Cloud+, and PenTest+ or equivalent certifications/knowledge
- Passing score: Pass/Fail only — no scaled score
- 1.0 Security Architecture (29%)
- 2.0 Security Operations (30%)
- 3.0 Security Engineering and Cryptography (26%)
- 4.0 Governance, Risk, and Compliance (15%)
Pre-requisites:
There are no pre-requisites to take this course. However, it is strongly advised that you have a minimum of ten years of general hands-on IT experience, with at least five of those years being broad hands-on IT security experience
Labs:
No labs are currently available for this course.
Additional Resources:
No additional resources are currently available for this course.
