Cybersecurity Nexus™ (CSX)

When it comes to security breaches and cyber attacks, it is often not a matter of if an organization will experience an
attack, but when it will happen. An overwhelming number of enterprises are ill-equipped to handle an attack and the
need for skilled cyber security professionals continues to increase exponentially.

To meet this ever-growing need, the leading global association for information systems professionals, ISACA®, has
developed the Cybersecurity Nexus™ (CSX) knowledge platform.

CSX Practitioner
CSX is a one-stop global resource that develops and delivers training, certifications and other vital cyber resources
that help enhance the skills, knowledge, network, credentials and careers of current and future defenders against the
ever-evolving cyber security threat.

Certification
Learn more at: www.isaca.org/cybersecurity

Get Certified and Set Yourself Apart

Build, Test And Showcase Your Ability To Be An
CSX certifications are testaments to your real-life skills, and show employers
that you have both the knowledge and the ability to walk into an organization and In-Demand Cyber Security First Responder
do the job from day one.
• Validate skills critical to real-life cyber security scenarios.
• Signify higher levels of credibility to employers and organizations.
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• Increase professional recognition by peers and colleagues.
• Provide credibility needed for career mobility.
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• In addition, independent studies consistently rate ISACA’s designations among the highest paying and highly Certified Cybersecurity Practitioner

regarded IT certifications, and CSX certifications are designed to carry on that tradition.

For more information please visit www.isaca.org/CSXCertExam

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CSX PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION

As the first performance-based certification in the CSX Credentialing and Certification Pathway,
the award-winning* CSX Practitioner Certification demonstrates its holder’s ability to serve
Cybersecurity Nexus™ (CSX) is helping to fill the global in the globally in-demand role of a professional cyber security first responder:

cyber security skills gap through the development and delivery
of skills-based training and performance-based testing.
CSX training and certifications are designed to help you develop and build technical skills in critical areas of cyber security,
and validate your abilities to do the job from day one. Both our training programs and our certification exams are conducted
in a live, scenario-based “cyber lab environment” making them game changers for you as you seek to secure a role or
advance your career in the global cyber workforce. Training courses help students build and practice skills, and certification
exams test on whether or not an individual has the skills and technical savvy to do the job.
• Capable of following established procedures
• Proficient in using defined processes
• Able to work with known problems on a single system
This globally available designation affirms that you have firewall, patching and anti-virus experience and can implement
common security controls, perform vulnerability scans and some analysis.
Exam Prerequisites: Related courses are not required to take the exam, but are recommended.
Exam Pricing: ISACA Member Price: US $540 | Non-Member Price: US $725

To support you and affirm your knowledge and skills at every level of your cyber career from when you first start out to the
Build and Practice Your Technical Skills With CSX Practitioner Training Programs
point at which you are a foremost cyber expert, CSX has developed the CSX Credentialing and Certification Pathway.
CSX Practitioner training courses combine instruction with hands-on learning and practice in applying basic concepts and
This full-career credentialing program overlays with career paths for both technical and managerial cyber security roles.
industry-leading methods, and in utilizing a large array of open source tools within real-world scenarios—all in a live “cyber lab”
environment. Each training option will help you build the critical skills necessary to be successful in a variety of cyber security
roles and to earn the CSX Practitioner certification. Training programs are not required to sit for the CSX Practitioner certification
exam, but are strongly recommended.

CHOOSE PROGRAM OPTIONS BASED ON CURRENT SKILL LEVEL,

The CSX Credentialing and Certification Pathway LEARNING FORMAT AND INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES:
Validate your Skills at Every Stage of your Career CSX Practitioner Series Courses CSX Practitioner Labs
The series consists of three unique, week-long courses The same labs used in our CSX Practitioner Series training
Certified aligned with existing global frameworks, including NIST courses are also available for separate purchase, and are
CSX
Specialist Information Cybersecurity Framework. Each course is 5 days and an ideal way to practice your technical skills and prepare for
Identify &
Security combines lecture with hands-on lab time, and includes the CSX Practitioner certification exam. Access your labs
Protect Manager®
a 6-month subscription to the labs used in the course. and practice your skills from anywhere you have high-speed
internet connectivity, any time.
CSX Practitioner Course 1: Identification and
Cybersecurity CSX Protection — Focuses on concepts and skills needed
Fundamentals CSX Practitioner Specialist
to recognize, assess and remediate specific internal and Introducing CSX Practitioner Boot Camp!
Certificate Detect
external network threats, and to implement cyber security The CSX Practitioner Boot Camp is a brand new, 5-day
controls to protect a system from identified threats. intensive cyber security training course. This accelerated
CSX version of CSX Practitioner Series Courses is designed for
Specialist CSX Practitioner Course 2: Detection — Centered on
CSX Expert professionals with an intermediate skill set and is focused
Respond & building skills to leverage cyber security controls to identify
on more complex, technical cyber skills and scenarios. Each
Recover system events and non-event level incidents, and to detect
day in the immersive Boot Camp covers specific skills aligned
potential network events and incidents.
with globally-recognized NIST Cybersecurity Framework
CSX Practitioner Course 3: Respond and Recover — domains: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
This course focuses on skills required to draft and execute Each area covered in the course is matched with practice
comprehensive incident response plans, including labs and tools, and you will receive a complimentary 6-month
maintaining proper isolation and incident response subscription to the virtual cyber lab environment where you
information and documentation. can continue practicing and building your technical skills.

Learn more at: www.isaca.org/practitioner

*CSX Practitioner is the 2016 SC Magazine Award Winner for Best Professional Certification Program