Personally, I honestly see this certification rebrand of the CASP+ to SecurityX to be a money grab for sure. Studying for the CompTIA trifecta A+ N+ S+ is the best way to go starting out to lay a nice solid foundation of generalized IT and touching just the very surface or iceberg if you will with a bit of security. After the Security+ I would maybe get CySA+ then pivot to another vendor with more practicality/hands on such as TCM Security which is awesome btw and truly a godsend. While studying for these of course do the usual training as well such as: Hack The Box, Let's Defend, TryHackMe etc. While yes it's way to early to tell but this cerfication again in my personal opinion more likely than not will not be well recognized/gain traction with hiring managers and recruiters as the coveted Security+ is.
I'm a kinda creative person and I've been a video editor and indie game developer. Now I'm preparing for my Security+ exam, I'm not sure how well the certs are helpful on the salary rat race tracks, but I guess it could be used as a great audience magnet for a youtuber at least.
Took and passed the BETA exam for SecurityX. The test definitely wasn't a walk in the park. The hands-on portion I thought was still lack luster compared to other exams. Personally, I think they should have just kept the CASP+ name. SecurityX is a horrible name and I can see folks getting confused between Security+ and SecurityX.
Thank you for your insights! As someone who hasn't taken the exam, this is valuable advice for those who want an opinion on someone who has actually taken it.
I would use certs to get the theory and then anything that focuses more on hands on skills. The hands on is far more valuable long term than the theory based certs. Know plenty of people with no certs and learnt the theory as a side affect of hands on. Gwt the fundamentals through certs then focus on hands on as soon as you know what you want to do. You need to figure out what you want to do because you will find it very very difficult to learn it all and the even harder to get any chance to have the time to master more than one.
100% agree, thank you for the share. The second part of the "learning equation", practical skill development, is what I am looking to help with in the future.
Interestingly Cisco is also rebranding one of their cybersecurity certifications in order to get some traction on it: Cisco CyberOps --> Cisco Cybersecurity (CCSA? or C3A - Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate lol)
I am seeing these "re-brands" as more of an opportunity to increase attention and sales rather than actual differences. My unsolicited opinion - I like the name CyberOps rather than Cybersecurity. Sounds more sleak 😂
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Personally, I honestly see this certification rebrand of the CASP+ to SecurityX to be a money grab for sure. Studying for the CompTIA trifecta A+ N+ S+ is the best way to go starting out to lay a nice solid foundation of generalized IT and touching just the very surface or iceberg if you will with a bit of security. After the Security+ I would maybe get CySA+ then pivot to another vendor with more practicality/hands on such as TCM Security which is awesome btw and truly a godsend. While studying for these of course do the usual training as well such as: Hack The Box, Let's Defend, TryHackMe etc. While yes it's way to early to tell but this cerfication again in my personal opinion more likely than not will not be well recognized/gain traction with hiring managers and recruiters as the coveted Security+ is.
I can agree with what you are saying here. It's more of an attention grabber with "X" in the name rather than an actual content update.
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Awesome, Thank you!
I'm a kinda creative person and I've been a video editor and indie game developer. Now I'm preparing for my Security+ exam, I'm not sure how well the certs are helpful on the salary rat race tracks, but I guess it could be used as a great audience magnet for a youtuber at least.
Thanks Grant!! Very informative!
Happy to share!
Good perspective on this "re-branded" exam!
Happy to share! Hopefully this is helpful.
Took and passed the BETA exam for SecurityX. The test definitely wasn't a walk in the park. The hands-on portion I thought was still lack luster compared to other exams. Personally, I think they should have just kept the CASP+ name. SecurityX is a horrible name and I can see folks getting confused between Security+ and SecurityX.
Thank you for your insights! As someone who hasn't taken the exam, this is valuable advice for those who want an opinion on someone who has actually taken it.
I would use certs to get the theory and then anything that focuses more on hands on skills. The hands on is far more valuable long term than the theory based certs. Know plenty of people with no certs and learnt the theory as a side affect of hands on.
Gwt the fundamentals through certs then focus on hands on as soon as you know what you want to do. You need to figure out what you want to do because you will find it very very difficult to learn it all and the even harder to get any chance to have the time to master more than one.
100% agree, thank you for the share. The second part of the "learning equation", practical skill development, is what I am looking to help with in the future.
Interestingly Cisco is also rebranding one of their cybersecurity certifications in order to get some traction on it: Cisco CyberOps --> Cisco Cybersecurity (CCSA? or C3A - Cisco Certified Cybersecurity Associate lol)
I am seeing these "re-brands" as more of an opportunity to increase attention and sales rather than actual differences.
My unsolicited opinion - I like the name CyberOps rather than Cybersecurity. Sounds more sleak 😂