The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) qualification is a stand-alone qualification that validates advanced-level IT security skills and knowledge for advanced practitioners of cybersecurity. CASP+ certifies critical thinking and judgement across a broad spectrum of security disciplines and allows IT security professionals to conceptualise, design, and engineer secure solutions across complex enterprise environments.

Various topics are covered including the history of cryptography, symmetric, asymmetric and hybrid encryption, digital signatures, public key infrastructure, advanced network design, cloud computing, virtual LANs, firewalls and network access control lists. Other topics covered include anti-malware, asset management, secure coding standards, malware sandboxing, the incident response framework and implement security activities across technology life cycle.

CompTIA is the world’s leading tech association and the voice of the world’s IT industry. CompTIA is a non-profit trade association providing leading vendor-neutral certification programmes that have been developed in connection with their membership community of IT professionals.