CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) Certification Training

Key Courses

Who Should Attend?

• Security Professional working within an organization
• Graduate of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) course
• Personnel seeking IAT-3 certification to fulfill the DoD 8570.1 Directive
• Personnel seeking IAM-2 certification to fulfill the DoD 8570.1 Directive

Recommended Pre-requisites

While there are no strict prerequisites, CompTIA intends the CASP certification to serve as an add-on to the CompTIA Security+ certification, or equivalent technical experience. CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+ will also be helpful. CompTIA also recommends that students have a minimum of 10 years of experience including at least five years of hands-on technical security experience.

Skills Students will Learn

• Identifying enterprise security fundamentals.
• Applying enterprise security technology solutions.
• Identifying enterprise resource technologies and the potential security implications for these resources.
• Designing security solutions.
• Identifying application security design issues such as best practices for development and testing as well as threat mitigation techniques.
• Managing risk, security policies, and security procedures within an enterprise.
• Integrating security solutions within an enterprise. 
• Conducting security research and analysis.

Technical Features of the Course

• Enterprise Security: cryptographic tools, techniques, methods, and design; virtualized, distributed, and shared computing; vulnerabilities; enterprise storage, secure comprehensive integration; security controls for hosts; application security & tool/method assessment
• Risk Management, Policy, Procedure & Legal: security risks of business decisions; internal & external factors; risk mitigation strategies & controls; incident response & recovery; assessing and implementing security & privacy procedures; common security business documents & policies
• Research & Analysis: industry trends and impact on enterprise security; emerging threats & threat awareness; global security community; contracting requirements; conducting relevant security research
• Integration of Computing, Communications, and Business Discipline: integrating various disciplines to achieve secure solutions; guidance, recommendations, and collaboration; security impact of inter-organizational change; distinguishing and selecting appropriate security controls for communications and collaboration; advanced authentication tools, techniques, & concepts; security across technology lifecycle

Certification and Exams

A CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) certification candidate is required to pass a single exam.