ISACA Enhances CSX Cybersecurity Practitioner Certification to Test 20 Cybersecurity Skills

According to State of Cybersecurity 2020, hands-on cybersecurity training, experience and credentials are the top three factors that help a hiring manager determine if a cybersecurity job candidate is qualified. To help individuals prove their qualifications—and help hiring managers quickly identify skilled candidates—ISACA has updated its performance CSX Cybersecurity Practitioner (CSX-P) certification with expanded job tasks that span and test across five key security functions – Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

CSX-P, which has been previously recognized with the SC Award for Best Certification Program, offers hands-on training in real-world scenarios and validates that cybersecurity professionals have advanced technical skills.​ To more effectively reflect the expanding cybersecurity threat landscape, the comprehensive CSX-P certification exam has quadrupled its coverage of critical cybersecurity skill sets, expanding from five tasks to 20. These tasks fall under five key security functions, ensuring a comprehensive, performance-based experience that tests the exam-taker’s ability to solve problems in a simulated environment, including: