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Standardize your team on SecurityX with a structured CompTIA training path — virtual labs, a blueprint-weighted practice exam, and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (CompTIA)
$529
Courses on path
1
Official source
CompTIA’s official exam page
Exam code
  • CAS-005

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites
Recommended experience
2-3 years of hands-on experience in IT with a focus on security
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$529

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the SecurityX path takes CAS-005.

  1. CAS-005SecurityX (formerly CASP+ / CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner)Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $529
    Exam length
    165 minutes
    Questions
    90
    Passing score
    Pass/Fail

    Exam blueprint: CAS-005

Skills your team builds

threat managementcryptographyidentity managementsecurity risk identification

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full SecurityX path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    CompTIA SecurityX (CAS-005)

    Senior security staff often understand the technology but struggle to turn it into governance, risk, and budget decisions leadership will fund. This CompTIA SecurityX (CAS-005) training helps IT Directors close that gap by moving security architects and technical leads from implementation thinking to executive-level oversight. Learners work through governance frameworks like COBIT 2019 and ITIL, configuration and change management, GRC, data governance, threat modeling, cloud and zero trust architecture, threat hunting, and incident response. Realistic scenarios include evaluating an RFC for a subcontractor FTP share and framing a Windows 11 licensing rollout in budget terms. Your team comes away able to vet changes for risk before they reach production and present security proposals in language the C-suite will act on. SecurityX is DoD 8140/8570-approved, which makes this course a practical fit for government teams and contractors with role-based certification requirements. Virtual labs cover sandboxing in Active Directory, infrastructure as code with Terraform and PowerShell, and threat intelligence work in MISP. At about 26 hours across 32 skills, most under an hour each, the course fits weekly study blocks alongside normal workloads. Training Managers can use team reporting to follow per-learner progress and completion and export completion records for audit evidence.

    Erik Choron
    246 videos9 labsPractice exam26h
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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Hands-on virtual labs
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

CompTIA career ladder

Where SecurityX sits in your team's CompTIA progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    A+

    Core 1: 220-1201, Core 2: 220 …

    Tech+

    FC0-U71

  2. Associate level

    4 certs

    Data+

    DA0-002

    Network+

    N10-009

    Project+

    PK0-005

    Security+

    SY0-701

  3. Professional level

    5 certs

    AutoOps+

    AT0-001

    Cloud+

    CV0-004

    CySA+

    CS0-004

    Pentest+

    PT0-003

    Server+

    SK0-005

  4. Expert level

    3 certs

    CloudNetX

    CNX-001

    DataAI

    DY0-001

    SecurityX

    CAS-005

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Customer outcome

Build CAS-005 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the SecurityX course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see CompTIA skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make CAS-005 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on CAS-005 gives leadership a clear picture of CompTIA skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: SecurityX

Exam
  • CAS-005

Frequently asked questions about SecurityX training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating SecurityX training for their team.

How does SecurityX fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite SecurityX when documenting that senior security staff are trained in governance, risk, and compliance, data governance, and breach response. Team reporting provides per-learner completion and completion exports that can support audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential formally maps to the framework the organization follows.

Who on the team should hold SecurityX, and what can a certified team own?

SecurityX suits the senior security engineers and architects who make enterprise-wide security decisions rather than the analysts working individual alerts. The linked course covers GRC, data life cycle management, risk analysis, threat modeling, attack methodology frameworks, attack surface, and breach response, so a certified team can own the risk register, threat models, and the breach response process.

What does CBT Nuggets SecurityX training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets SecurityX courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to CompTIA's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track SecurityX training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the SecurityX courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on SecurityX?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 26 hours of video across the live courses. The calendar time beyond that depends on each engineer's starting point in enterprise security governance and risk work, and how much time the team can set aside for study.

What if CompTIA updates the SecurityX exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates CompTIA course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When CompTIA restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to SecurityX-certify your team?

Build SecurityX capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track SecurityX training across the team — labs, a practice exam, and reporting included.

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