CompTIA Security+ (Plus) Certification

CompTIA Security+ Certification

CompTIA Security+ is the first security certification a candidate should earn. It establishes the core knowledge required of any cybersecurity role and provides a springboard to intermediate-level cybersecurity jobs. Security+ incorporates best practices in hands-on troubleshooting, ensuring candidates have practical security problem-solving skills required to:

Assess the security posture of an enterprise environment and recommend and implement appropriate security solutions
Monitor and secure hybrid environments, including cloud, mobile, and IoT
Operate with an awareness of applicable laws and policies, including principles of governance, risk, and compliance
Identify, analyze, and respond to security events and incidents

Security+ 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 2.3 million CompTIA ISO/ANSI-accredited exams have been delivered since January 1, 2011.

Attacks, Threats and Vulnerabilities

Focusing on more threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities on the Internet from newer custom devices that must be mitigated, such as IoT and embedded devices, newer DDoS attacks, and social engineering attacks based on current events.

Architecture and Design

Includes coverage of enterprise environments and reliance on the cloud, which is growing quickly as organizations transition to hybrid networks.

Implementation

Expanded to focus on administering identity, access management, PKI, basic cryptography, wireless, and end-to-end security.

Operations and Incident Response

Covering organizational security assessment and incident response procedures, such as basic threat detection, risk mitigation techniques, security controls, and basic digital forensics.

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Expanded to support organizational risk management and compliance to regulations, such as PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, and CCPA.

CompTIA Security+ Features

More choose Security+ - chosen by more corporations and defense organizations than any other certification on the market to validate baseline security skills and for fulfilling the DoD 8570 compliance.
Security+ proves hands-on skills – the only baseline cybersecurity certification emphasizing hands-on practical skills, ensuring the security professional is better prepared to problem solve a wider variety of today’s complex issues.
More job roles turn to Security+ to supplement skills – baseline cybersecurity skills are applicable across more of today’s job roles to secure systems, software and hardware.
Security+ is aligned to the latest trends and techniques – covering the most core technical skills in risk assessment and management, incident response, forensics, enterprise networks, hybrid/cloud operations, and security controls, ensuring high-performance on the job.

CompTIA Security+ Career Pathways

The current and future demand is staggering. The New York Times reports a candidate shortage for certified CompTIA Security+ Engineers, with fewer than 10,000 qualified people in the world to fill these jobs, which according to Paysa earn an average salary of $172,000 per year in the U.S. (or Rs.17 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs in India) for engineers with the required skills.

Why Technovalley

Founded in 2016 , Technovalley has grown several folds and has become a $280 million valuated company. With Technovalley AKS, one of our SBUs, it is a legacy. For Technovalley, Success is typically associated with upskilling and reskilling talents. Over 3,000 interns have been successfully placed across 600+ MNCs. Thank you, interns and corporate houses, for your assistance in helping us reach these milestones. Technovally-AKS is a name that has been mentioned in the success stories of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals in India and abroad. We provide IT consulting to interns based on their requirements and make them job-ready in a very short span of time. We charge no fee or commission for placements, but we do encourage them to bear the cost of their internship expenses as we offer state-of-the-art infrastructure and experienced faculties to upskill them and simultaneously make them highly competitive in the job market. The IT consulting programs offered here are highly innovative and based on the requirements of our clients to provide them with cost-effective candidates who are skilled, talented, disciplined, knowledgeable, dedicated and committed to the job offered.