CompTIA SA+

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) is a certification for cyber professionals tasked with incident detection, prevention and response through continuous security monitoring. Stand Out in Cybersecurity

Demonstrate Competency of Current Trends Make yourself a valuable team member and show your knowledge of current trends that affect the daily work of security analysts, such as cloud and hybrid environments.

Proactively Monitor and Detect Demonstrate your skills in detecting and analyzing indicators of malicious activity using the most up-to-date methods and tools, such as threat intelligence, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR).

Respond to Threats, Attacks and Vulnerabilities Prove your knowledge of incident response and vulnerability management processes and highlight the communication skills critical to security analysis and compliance. What Skills Will You Learn?

Security Operations Improve processes in security operations and differentiate between threat intelligence and threat hunting concepts; identify and analyze malicious activity using the appropriate tools and techniques

Vulnerability and Management Implement and analyze vulnerability assessments, prioritize vulnerabilities and make recommendations on mitigating attacks and vulnerability response

Incident Response and Management Apply updated concepts of attack methodology frameworks, perform incident response activities and understand the incident management lifecycle

Reporting and Communication Apply communication best practices in vulnerability management and incident response as it relates to stakeholders, action plans, escalation and metrics