SecurityX, formerly CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+), covers the technical knowledge and skills required to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise while considering the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements.
- Exam version: V5
- Exam series code: CAS-005
- Launch date: December 17, 2024
- Number of questions: maximum of 90, a mix of multiple-choice and performance-based questions
- Retirement: usually three years after launch (estimated 2027)
- Duration: maximum of 165 minutes
- Passing score: pass/fail only; no scaled score
- Languages: English, with other languages to be determined
- Recommended experience: minimum of 10 years of general hands-on IT experience, including 5 years of hands-on security, with Network+, Security+, CySA+, Cloud+, and PenTest+ or equivalent knowledge
- NICE and DoD 8140 work roles: security architect, systems requirements planner, security control assessor, research and development specialist, and more