✓ Build skills with CompTIA training and validate them with CySA+ certification.

✓ Enhance security operations processes, differentiate threat intelligence and threat hunting, and identify malicious activity using appropriate tools.

✓ Conduct vulnerability assessments, prioritize vulnerabilities, and recommend effective mitigation strategies for vulnerability management.

✓ Apply attack methodology frameworks, perform incident response, and understand the incident management lifecycle to handle security incidents effectively.

✓ Utilize communication best practices to report on vulnerability management and incident response, providing stakeholders with actionable plans and meaningful metrics.

• Exam version: V3

• Exam series code: CS0-003

• Launch date: June 6, 2023

• Number of questions: maximum of 85 questions, a mix of multiple-choice and performance-based questions

• Retirement: usually three years after launch (estimated 2026)

• Duration: 165 minutes

• Passing score: 750 (on a scale of 100-900)

• Languages: English, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish

• Recommended experience: Network+, Security+, or equivalent knowledge, with a minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience as an incident response analyst, security operations center (SOC) analyst, or equivalent experience

• DoD 8140 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