Your certification is valid for three years. You can renew with Continuing Education credits or retake exams before they expire.
Launch your career in cybersecurity operations
Cybersecurity Associate Certification
With a Cybersecurity Associate certification, you’ll prove your expertise in essential cybersecurity skills, concepts, and technologies, including understanding IT infrastructure, operations, and vulnerabilities.
Security concepts
Demonstrate your knowledge of security terms like malware, threat hunting, and zero trust. Differentiate security concepts such as vulnerability and exploit.
Security monitoring
Understand the technologies used to monitor cybersecurity. Be able to identify attacks on network, web application, social engineering, and endpoints.
Host-based analysis
Identify the endpoints and systems protected by cybersecurity. Attribute the sources of cyber attacks and analyze key evidence, like logs and reports.
Network intrusion analysis
Demonstrate your knowledge of troubleshooting techniques and analysis, including assessing event and alert impact, monitoring traffic, and interpreting regular expressions.
Potential roles
Alumni testimonials
Resources
Cybersecurity Associate summary
Get a quick primer on the Cybersecurity Associate certification and exams.