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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)

CompTIA

Certification

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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) is the premier certification for cyber professionals tasked with incident detection, prevention, and response through continuous security monitoring. It validates a tech professional's expertise in incident response and vulnerability management processes, emphasizing the critical communication skills necessary for effective security analysis and compliance.

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Format

Online

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Exam details 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

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Skills & Competencies

Skills developed through this program

  • 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
Career Pathways

Occupations this program prepares you for

  • Information Security Analysts15-1212.00
What You'll Learn

Key competencies developed through this program

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Mastery: developing (Level 2)(based on Certification)

  • Multi-source alert investigations — correlate across SIEM, EDR, identity, and network with reduced oversight.
  • Routine incident response — execute tier-2 containment and eradication on familiar threat types.
  • Vulnerability prioritization — assess CVSS, exploitability, and asset context to drive patching decisions.
  • Threat-intel ingestion and operationalization — turn IOCs and TTPs into detection rules.
  • Cloud-security configuration (AWS, Azure, GCP IAM and network controls) — review and remediate in routine cases.
  • Detection engineering (basic SIEM queries, custom rules) — write and tune for the SOC's standard threats.
  • Junior analysts on alert triage — coach during their first 90 days.
  • On-call shifts in the SOC rotation — handle independently with senior backstop.
  • Compliance audit evidence collection — produce for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 cycles without manager involvement.
  • Tabletop exercises — participate substantively in SOC and broader-IR drills.

Some details on this page are auto-populated from public workforce data sources: O*NET (opens in new tab), BLS (opens in new tab), College Scorecard (opens in new tab), DOL Training Provider Results (opens in new tab), NSX (opens in new tab). Provided in partnership with LER.me Career Intelligence.

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