CompTIA SecurityX Training
5 Day SecurityX Boot Camp
Prepare for the CompTIA SecurityX (formerly CASP+) exam in five live days with an expert instructor, taught live online.
Exam voucher included · Hands-on labs
What Is CompTIA SecurityX Certification?
CompTIA SecurityX, formerly CASP+, is CompTIA’s expert-level cybersecurity certification for security architects and senior security engineers. It certifies that you can architect, engineer, integrate and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise. CompTIA positions it for hands-on practitioners who stay in the technology, rather than managers who set policy.
The exam covers security operations (automation, monitoring, detection and incident response), security for cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, cryptography and emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, and governance, risk, compliance and threat modeling.
Our SecurityX certification training is built for experienced IT and security professionals who want the focused preparation a SecurityX Boot Camp provides: five live days of instruction and hands-on labs with an expert instructor who connects the material to your experience.
SecurityX Certification Requirements
CompTIA recommends a minimum of 10 years of general, hands-on IT experience that includes at least 5 years of broad, hands-on IT security experience before you take SecurityX, along with Network+, Security+, CySA+, Cloud+ and PenTest+ or equivalent knowledge. The certification is aimed at senior practitioners. The job roles CompTIA lists for SecurityX are security architect, security engineer and application security engineer.
Source: CompTIA, SecurityX exam page and What is CompTIA SecurityX certification?
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SecurityX Exam Details
questions at most, multiple-choice and performance-based
of testing time
scoring only, with no scaled score
exam domains
SecurityX Exam Domains
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1.0 Governance, Risk, and Compliance | 20% |
| 2.0 Security Architecture | 27% |
| 3.0 Security Engineering | 31% |
| 4.0 Security Operations | 22% |
Source: CompTIA, SecurityX CAS-005 (V5) exam objectives, document version 7.0. See the CompTIA SecurityX page.
SecurityX Certification Cost
Taking the exam on your own? You buy an exam voucher from the CompTIA Store and take the test through Pearson VUE. The retail price of the SecurityX (V5) exam voucher is $509. CompTIA sets the fee and can change it, so confirm the current price before you buy. If you do not pass, you need another voucher to retake the exam, unless you bought one with CompTIA’s retake assurance.
See the current CompTIA exam fee
With Certification Academy
Our comprehensive SecurityX Boot Camp includes your exam voucher, so the exam fee is covered.
SecurityX Training: 5 Day Boot Camp
Not all SecurityX courses are the same, and the quality of exam prep varies widely. Many hand you a roadmap and leave you to learn the rest alone. We believe Certification Academy offers the best value: proven learning methods, simple memorization techniques and an instructor who connects the material to your experience. Our SecurityX Boot Camp is Official CompTIA Authorized Training, and an accelerated path to your SecurityX certification.
Why take a SecurityX Boot Camp?
A boot camp combines instructor-led lectures, hands-on labs and practice exams. You work through security architecture, security engineering, security operations and governance, risk and compliance scenarios with an expert instructor, so you are ready for the performance-based questions on exam day.
Who should attend a SecurityX Training Course?
Security architects, senior security engineers and other experienced practitioners who design, engineer and run enterprise security. CompTIA recommends 10 years of IT experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on security experience. Ideal candidates are comfortable with:
- Identity and access management (IAM), including authentication factors and directory services
- Cryptography fundamentals, including SSL/TLS and public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Core networking principles, such as the TCP/IP model and configuring routers and switches
- Essential security technologies, such as anti-malware solutions, firewalls and VPNs
What’s included
- 5 days of instructor-led, Official CompTIA Authorized Training
- Official CompTIA study guide
- 180-day access to class recordings
- Pre-study learning path
- Unlimited practice exam attempts
- Exam voucher included
- Pass your exam, guaranteed (Terms & Policies)
We are with you every step of the way
- Application assistance
- Readiness roadmap
- Post-class support
- Complete study resources
What You Will Learn in the SecurityX Training Curriculum
- Architect, engineer, integrate and implement secure solutions across complex environments
- Use automation, monitoring, detection and incident response to support ongoing security operations
- Apply security practices to cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments
- Consider cryptographic technologies and techniques, and the impact of emerging trends such as artificial intelligence
- Use governance, compliance, risk management and threat-modeling strategies across the enterprise
SecurityX Boot Camp Curriculum: 5 Days
Each of the first four days focuses on one area of the SecurityX exam objectives. The fifth day is exam review and practice.
Day 1: Governance, Risk and Compliance (20% of the exam)
- Security program documentation and management: policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, awareness training, reporting and the RACI matrix
- Governance frameworks and configuration management: COBIT, ITIL, the asset life cycle and CMDBs
- Risk management: impact analysis, quantitative and qualitative assessment, third-party and supply chain risk, and availability, confidentiality, integrity and privacy risk
- Compliance: industry standards and regulations such as PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27000, GDPR and CCPA
- Threat modeling: actor characteristics, attack patterns and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and STRIDE
- Security challenges of adopting artificial intelligence
- Hands-on: GRC policy and framework workshop using real-world compliance scenarios
Day 2: Security Architecture (27%)
- Designing resilient systems: component placement (firewalls, IPS/IDS, WAF, VPN, proxies, API gateways), load balancing and recoverability
- Secure architecture controls: attack surface reduction, defense in depth, centralized logging, data security design and DLP
- Security across the systems life cycle: software assurance (SAST, DAST), CI/CD, software bills of materials and supply chain risk
- Access, authentication and authorization design: federation, SSO, conditional access, access control models and PKI architecture
- Cloud security: CASB, the shared responsibility model, containers, serverless, Terraform, Ansible and API security
- Zero Trust: segmentation, microsegmentation, SASE and SD-WAN
- Hands-on: design and automate secure network and cloud architectures in a lab setup
Day 3: Security Engineering (31%)
- Troubleshooting identity and access management: SAML, OAuth, Kerberos, MFA, privileged access management and secrets management
- Endpoint and server security: EDR, application control, HIPS/HIDS, configuration management and threat-actor techniques
- Network infrastructure security: DNS security, email security (DKIM, SPF, DMARC), TLS and PKI issues, and access control lists
- Hardware security: TPM, HSM, secure enclaves and secure boot
- Specialized and legacy systems: OT, SCADA, ICS, IoT and embedded systems
- Automation: scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python), infrastructure as code, SOAR, and vulnerability scanning with SCAP
- Cryptography: post-quantum cryptography, homomorphic encryption, key stretching, forward secrecy, tokenization, code signing and digital signatures
- Hands-on: scripting labs and cryptography use-case challenges
Day 4: Security Operations (22%)
- Monitoring and response: SIEM, event correlation, behavior baselines, alert prioritization and threat intelligence feeds
- Vulnerabilities and attacks: injection, cross-site scripting, SSRF, race conditions, weak ciphers and end-of-life software, with the mitigations for each
- Threat hunting and intelligence: honeypots, OSINT, ISACs, threat intelligence platforms, STIX/TAXII, Sigma, YARA and Snort
- Incident response: malware analysis, reverse engineering, metadata analysis, timeline reconstruction and root cause analysis
- Hands-on: SIEM configuration and threat-hunting simulations
Day 5: Exam Review and Practice
- Domain-weighted practice tests that mirror the exam format, including performance-based questions
- Exam strategy: time management, question navigation and problem-solving under pressure
- Final review of all four domains
Upcoming SecurityX Training Class Schedule
| State | City | Location | Dates | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Nov 16th - Nov 20th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Dec 14th - Dec 18th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Jan 25th - Jan 29th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Mar 8th - Mar 12th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Apr 19th - Apr 23rd | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | May 31st - Jun 4th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Jul 12th - Jul 16th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Aug 23rd - Aug 27th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Oct 4th - Oct 8th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Nov 15th - Nov 19th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Dec 27th - Dec 31st | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Feb 7th - Feb 11th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Mar 20th - Mar 24th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | May 1st - May 5th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Jun 12th - Jun 16th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Jul 24th - Jul 28th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Sep 4th - Sep 8th | $3,299 | |
| Central Time | Online | Virtual Classroom | Oct 16th - Oct 20th | $3,299 |
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Why Choose Us for Your SecurityX Boot Camp Training?
We blend proven learning concepts with simple memorization techniques so the large volume of material stays organized and memorable. Here are a few key reasons to join our class:
Experience
Our instructors are experienced trainers who use proven adult-learning practices and straightforward internalization techniques to build engagement and motivation and to increase recall.
Thought leadership
Our courses are developed to ensure a high degree of correlation between the subject matter and the exam. We use problem-based, collaborative approaches, with more equality and connection between instructor and learner.
Proven results
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Official CompTIA Authorized Training
Our SecurityX Boot Camp is Official CompTIA Authorized Training.
Pass your exam, guaranteed
We back the SecurityX Boot Camp with our pass guarantee. Terms & Policies.
Benefits of Attending a SecurityX Boot Camp
Achieve your goal
It is easier to plan test prep than to do it. When you spend your days making crucial decisions, study plans often lose to fatigue by nightfall. An accelerated SecurityX Boot Camp takes the temptation to postpone off the table and gives you space to immerse yourself in the material, so you can be exam-ready in less time than if you studied alone.
Retain more information
Five days give you more than exposure to the concepts on the exam. It is a focused experience with a rigorous schedule. You talk through concepts and situations with your instructor and peers, which grounds your learning so you can recall it when you need it.
Stay focused
An expert instructor who translates concepts into practical terms helps you grasp the content and test your understanding. Learning alongside peers who share your goals keeps you accountable. It is easy to lose focus alone at your desk with a book.
Connect real-world experience
Your years of practical experience are the most valuable thing you bring to your role. Turning what you know from doing into the principles CompTIA tests can challenge even seasoned practitioners. Your instructor helps you connect that experience to the exam material.
Dedicated support
Every student who completes the Certification Academy SecurityX Boot Camp receives one-on-one guidance from their trainer and an individualized learning plan based on their current proficiency and progress toward exam readiness.
Frequently Asked Questions About SecurityX Training
Which SecurityX exam does the boot camp prepare me for?
Our SecurityX Boot Camp prepares you for the CAS-005 (V5) exam, the current CompTIA SecurityX exam.
What is the difference between CASP+ and SecurityX?
SecurityX is the new name for CASP+. CompTIA renamed the certification with the CAS-005 exam, and the name change does not affect the status of current CASP+ certification holders.
How long is the SecurityX Boot Camp?
The boot camp is five days.
Is the exam voucher included?
Yes. The Certification Academy SecurityX Boot Camp includes your exam voucher.
How much experience do I need for SecurityX?
CompTIA recommends a minimum of 10 years of general, hands-on IT experience that includes at least 5 years of broad, hands-on IT security experience.
How many questions are on the exam, and what score do I need?
The exam has a maximum of 90 questions, a mix of multiple-choice and performance-based, and you have 165 minutes. SecurityX is scored pass or fail only, with no scaled score.
Is the SecurityX Boot Camp taught online?
Yes. The boot camp is taught live online by an expert instructor. See the class dates in the class schedule.
How long do I have access to the class recordings?
You have 180 days of access to the class recordings.
What if I do not pass the exam?
Our pass guarantee is explained in our Terms & Policies.
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