CompTIA launches expert-level cybersecurity certification

CompTIA this week made available its CompTIA SecurityX certification program, which is an updated version of the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) cert and part of CompTIA’s Xpert Series of certifications.

SecurityX follows CompTIA’s release of DataX earlier this year, and it is designed for IT professionals with multiple years of work experience who want to validate their expert-level knowledge of business-critical technologies. The program will be useful for security architects and senior security engineers who work toward enterprise cybersecurity readiness goals, covering the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions, according to CompTIA.

“CompTIA SecurityX is the only hands-on, performance-based certification for advanced practitioners—not managers—at the advanced skill level of cybersecurity,” said Patrick Lane, director of cybersecurity product management at CompTIA, in a statement. “This program is the only certification on the market that qualifies technical leaders to assess cyber readiness within an enterprise and design and implement the proper solutions to ensure the organization is ready for the next attack.”