Course at a glance

CASP+ is the only hands-on, performance-based certification for practitioners — not managers — at the advanced skill level of cybersecurity. While cybersecurity managers help identify what cybersecurity policies and frameworks could be implemented, CASP+ certified professionals figure out how to implement solutions within those policies and frameworks.

Recommended Experience: A minimum of ten years of experience in IT administration, including at least five years of hands-on technical security experience.

CASP+ certification has several benefits that include:

  1. Global recognition: Today, CompTIA has enormous credibility and is recognized globally as the leading IT nonprofit trade association. Considering cyber security threats have no boundaries, CASP+ certification is welcomed worldwide by innumerable organizations.
  2. Job benefits: Due to the fact that CompTIA certifications are recognized across the globe, your CASP+ certification is valid in many countries.  Therefore, it opens the doors to many advanced-level cyber security jobs. Many popular organizations today highly demand and are eager to hire CASP+ certified professionals. Some of those organizations include the U.S Navy, U.S Army, Verizon Telematics, Network Solutions, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
  3. Salary Benefits: According to a report by ITCareerFinder.com, the average salary package for CASP+ certified IT professionals is $85,000.
  4. ANSI approval: CASP+ certification is accredited by ANSI to meet the ISO17024 standard. Additionally, it has also been approved by the U.S Department of Defense (USDoD). Besides, the CASP+ also complies with the rules and regulations of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), the U.S legislation that provides comprehensive guidelines to protect government assets, operations, and information against natural and cyber security threats.
  5. CompTIA support: Unlike many other information security certifications, CASP+ was developed and maintained by the leading IT professionals in the IT industry.
  6. U.S Department of Defense (USDOD) positions: CASP+ is required for some U.S. Department of Defense positions as mandated by 8570.01M baseline certification levels.

What skills will you learn?

Risk Management

Analyze security risks and frameworks that come along with specific industry threats and organizational requirements and execute risk mitigation strategies.

Enterprise Security Architecture

Integrate network and security components and implement security controls for host, mobile and small form factor devices.

Enterprise Security Operations

Implement incident response and recovery procedures and conduct security assessments using appropriate tools.

Technical Integration of Enterprise Security

Integrate hosts, storage, networks and applications into a secure enterprise architecture using on-premise, cloud, and virtualization technologies.

Research, Development & Collaboration

Apply research methods to determine industry trends and their impact to the enterprise.

Exam:

The CASP+ certification validates advanced-level competency in risk management, enterprise security operations and architecture, research and collaboration, and integration of enterprise security. The CASP+ exam covers the following:

  • Enterprise security domain expanded to include operations and architecture concepts, techniques and requirements
  • More emphasis on analyzing risk through interpreting trend data and anticipating cyberdefense needs to meet business goals
  • Expanding security control topics to include mobile and small-form factor devices, as well as software vulnerability
  • Broader coverage of integrating cloud and virtualization technologies into a secure enterprise architecture
  • Inclusion of implementing cryptographic techniques, such as blockchain, cryptocurrency and mobile device encryption

CASP+ is compliant with ISO 17024 standards and approved by the US DoD to meet directive 8140/8570.01-M requirements. Regulators and government rely on ANSI accreditation, because it provides confidence and trust in the outputs of an accredited program. Over 1.3 million CompTIA ISO/ANSI-accredited exams have been delivered since January 1, 2011.

The new CompTIA CASP+ CAS-003 exam is available as of April 2, 2018. More information on both versions of the exam is available in the Exam Details below.

Number of QuestionsMaximum of 90 questions
Type of QuestionsMultiple-choice and performance-based
Length of Test165 Minutes
Passing ScoreThis test has no scaled score; it’s pass/fail only.

Jobs that use CompTIA CASP+

  • Security Architect
  • Technical Lead Analyst
  • Application Security Engineer
  • Security Engineer