Business intelligence, retail and financial services industries have successfully integrated the use of analytics for decades. Now, as attackers have learned to evade traditional signature-based solutions such as firewalls, an analytics-based approach within the IT security industry has become extremely important and essential for most organizations. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that information security analysts will be the fastest growing job category, with 37 percent overall growth between 2012 and 2022.
The behavioral analytics skills covered by the CompTIA CSA+ certification identify and combat malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs), resulting in better threat visibility across a broad attack surface by focusing on network behavior, including an organization’s interior network.
“Everybody in technology should have this. It should be mandatory if you’re going to stay in IT over the coming decade.”
The behavioral analytics skills covered by the CompTIA CSA+ certification identify and combat malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs), resulting in better threat visibility across a broad attack surface by focusing on network behavior, including an organization’s interior network.
“Everybody in technology should have this. It should be mandatory if you’re going to stay in IT over the coming decade.”