Security+ emphasizes hands-on practical skills, ensuring the security professional is better prepared to problem solve a wider variety of issues. Security+ focuses on the latest trends and techniques in risk management, risk mitigation, threat management and intrusion detection.

Career Opportunities 

– Systems Administrator

– Network Administrator

– Security Administrator

– Security Consultant

– Security Specialist

This course focuses on defence, and teaches the skills needed to apply behavioural analytics to the IT security environment. It fills the skills gap between Security+ and CASP+.

CySA+ focuses on the candidate’s ability to not only proactively capture, monitor, and respond to network traffic findings, but also emphasizes software and application security, automation, threat hunting, and IT regulatory compliance, which affects the daily work of security analysts.

Career Opportunities 

– Security analyst 

– Threat intelligence analyst

– Security engineer

– Application security analyst

– Threat hunter 

– Compliance analyst

– Incident response or handler