Stand Out in Cybersecurity
Demonstrate Competency of Current Trends
Become an invaluable team player and demonstrate your understanding of contemporary trends, such as cloud and hybrid settings, that have an impact on security analysts’ day-to-day job.
Proactively Monitor and Detect
Use the most recent techniques and tools, including threat intelligence, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint detection and response (EDR), and extended detection and response (XDR), to show off your abilities to identify and evaluate signs of malicious behavior.
Respond to Threats, Attacks and Vulnerabilities
Demonstrate your understanding of incident response and vulnerability management procedures while emphasizing the communication abilities necessary for compliance and security analysis.
Exam Details
| Exam Codes | CS0-003 | |
| Launch Date | June 6, 2023 | |
| Exam Description | The CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) certification verifies that successful candidates have the knowledge and skills required to detect and analyze indicators of malicious activity, understand threat intelligence and threat management, respond to attacks and vulnerabilities, perform incident response, and report and communicate related activity. | |
| Number of Questions | Maximum of 85 questions | |
| Type of Questions | Multiple choice and performance-based | |
| Length of Test | 165 minutes | |
| Passing Score | 750 (on a scale of 100-900) | |
| Recommended Experience | Network+, Security+ or equivalent knowledge. Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience as an incident response analyst or security operations center (SOC) analyst, or equivalent experience. | |
| Languages | English, with Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish to follow | |
| Retirement | TBD – Usually three years after launch | |
| DoD 8140 Approved Work Roles | All Source Analyst, Warning Analyst, Forensics Analyst, Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst, Cyber Crime Investigator, Systems Security Analyst, Cyber Defense Analyst, Cyber Defense Incident Responder, Vulnerability Assessment Analyst, Security Control Assessor For more information, click here. |
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| Testing Provider | Pearson VUE
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