CompTIA CASP+ (SecurityX / CAS-004)
Demonstrate advanced technical cybersecurity competency in architecting secure enterprise networks, engineering cloud and cryptographic solutions, implementing defense-in-depth, and managing complex cybersecurity risk.
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CompTIA CASP+ (now evolving into CompTIA SecurityX) is CompTIA's highest-level, hands-on technical cybersecurity certification validating advanced security engineering, architecture, and cryptographic design.
The exam consists of up to 90 multiple-choice and complex hands-on performance-based simulation questions (PBQs) to be completed within 165 minutes.
The CASP+ exam is graded on a Pass/Fail scale without a disclosed numerical scaled score. It is known for rigorous technical depth.
Domains include: (1) Security Architecture (29%), (2) Security Operations (30%), (3) Security Engineering and Cryptography (26%), and (4) Governance, Risk, and Compliance (15%).
While both target senior security professionals, CISSP focuses primarily on managerial, governance, and policy concepts. CASP+ is a hands-on technical credential for practitioners who implement and engineer security architectures.
ZTNA eliminates implicit perimeter trust, enforcing micro-segmentation, software-defined perimeters (SDP), continuous risk evaluation, and context-aware mutual TLS across on-premises, multi-cloud, and remote workers.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Hardware Security Modules (HSM), TPM 2.0, homomorphic encryption, perfect forward secrecy (PFS), quantum-resistant algorithms, and cryptographic key lifecycles.
Implementing the Purdue Model, unidirectional data diodes, protocol-specific filtering (Modbus, DNP3), physical air gaps, and dedicated industrial anomaly detection.
SDN separates the network control plane from the data plane, enabling programmatic, centralized policy enforcement, dynamic micro-segmentation, and automated threat isolation.
Designing secure multi-tenant cloud landing zones, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), and identity federation (SAML/OIDC).
Auditing third-party vendor risks, hardware tampering (counterfeit chips), software provenance (SLSA/SBOM), secure code signing, and contractual security SLAs.
Enterprise security architects, senior security engineers, SOC leads, application security architects, and technical professionals meeting DoD 8570/8140 IAT/IAM Level III requirements.