CompTIA's most advanced security certification — the only performance-based exam in its lineup, built for the senior engineers and architects who design defenses, not just administer them.
SecurityX is CompTIA's capstone certification — the credential for professionals moving from executing security tasks to owning them. Its exam weighting says as much: Security Engineering (31%) and Security Architecture (27%) carry the exam, testing whether you can actually design and harden enterprise defenses, not just recognize threats against them, while Governance, Risk, and Compliance and Security Operations confirm you can run the program those defenses sit inside. It's built for security architects and senior security engineers — the role this certification is named for, and the one it qualifies you to hold.
Source: CompTIA analysis of BLS/Lightcast data (salary) and CyberSeek job-postings data, Security Architect role · published Dec 2024
This course builds toward: Cybersecurity Analyst, Cloud Security Engineer
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