CompTIA Security+.
The industry baseline certification for security competency — threat analysis, security architecture, network security, identity management, security operations, governance, risk, and compliance.
Credential details.
The document.
What the exam
covers.
Six domains, all of which touch ordinary IT operations more than the name suggests.
Attack types, threat actors, indicators, and the vulnerability classes behind most real incidents.
Network and system design choices that limit blast radius before anything goes wrong.
Authentication, authorisation, MFA, and least privilege — the part that overlaps directly with directory work.
Monitoring, log analysis, incident response, and the evidence handling that makes a response defensible.
Policy, risk assessment, and the frameworks that decide what an organisation actually has to do.
Certificates, key management, and transport protection at the level needed to configure them correctly.