CompTIA SecurityX (CASP+) Bootcamp: CAS-005 in 5 Days

CompTIA SecurityX (CAS-005) Bootcamp Overview

This CompTIA SecurityX bootcamp is a five-day, instructor-led path to the CompTIA SecurityX certification, the advanced credential formerly branded CASP+. SecurityX validates the work of a security architect or senior security engineer: designing, building and integrating secure solutions across complex enterprise estates, running the automation, monitoring, detection and incident response that keep them defensible, and carrying the governance, risk and compliance load that sits around all of it. You sit the CAS-005 exam while you attend, at the same facility where you train.

CAS-005 is a maximum of 90 questions in 165 minutes, mixing multiple-choice with performance-based items that put you in a live environment rather than asking you to recognise an answer. It is graded pass or fail, with no scaled score. The certification maps to NICE and DoD 8140 work roles including security architect, systems requirements planner, security control assessor, and research and development specialist.

Who This CompTIA SecurityX Course Is For

SecurityX is built for practitioners who architect and engineer security rather than operate it, so this camp suits security architects, senior and lead security engineers, and technical leads who own the design of enterprise-wide controls. It also fits people already carrying that work under another title: cloud and infrastructure architects taking on a security remit, SOC and incident response leads moving into design, and GRC practitioners who need the technical depth to sit alongside the policy side. CompTIA positions SecurityX for hands-on architects who stay technical instead of moving into management, and for roles in federal and contractor environments where DoD 8140 alignment is required.

What You'll Learn in This CAS-005 Training

The course follows the four domains CompTIA measures on the CAS-005 exam, in CompTIA's own weightings:

• Governance, Risk, and Compliance (20%): security program documentation and program management, frameworks including COBIT and ITIL, configuration management across the asset life cycle, data governance, risk assessment and third-party risk, threat modeling with ATT&CK, CAPEC and STRIDE, attack surface and trust boundary analysis, and compliance against PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27000 and NIST.
• Security Architecture (27%): cloud capabilities from CASB and shadow IT detection through CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, container security and serverless workloads, cloud data security and encryption key handling, proactive and detective control strategies, network segmentation and microsegmentation, security boundaries and secure zones, deperimeterization with SASE, SD-WAN and software-defined networking, and zero trust subject and object relationships.
• Security Engineering (31%): the largest domain, covering automation and scripting in PowerShell, Bash and Python, infrastructure as code, cloud APIs, generative AI, SOAR and workflow automation, vulnerability management and SCAP, advanced cryptography including post-quantum, homomorphic encryption and forward secrecy, and cryptographic techniques from tokenization and code signing to digital signatures and cryptographic erase.
• Security Operations (22%): SIEM monitoring and data analysis, event correlation and behavior baselining, attack surface and vulnerability mitigation, threat hunting with internal and external intelligence, IoC sharing via STIX and TAXII, rule languages including Sigma, YARA and Snort, and incident response covering malware analysis, reverse engineering and root cause analysis.

Why Choose This CompTIA SecurityX Camp

SecurityX sits at the top of CompTIA's security path, and its performance-based questions reward time in a live environment rather than time with a study guide. Five focused days with an instructor, real labs and the exam booked at the end move you faster than months of evenings spent circling the objectives on your own.

• 5-day accelerated format: one exam, one certification, minimal time away from work.
• 95% first-attempt pass rate, with a retake voucher if you need it.
• CompTIA test voucher included, with no hidden exam fees.
• CompTIA training books, study labs and simulations, plus vetted practice exam resources.
• 90 days of extended access to your student lab environment after the camp.
• Classroom live or remote classroom live, the same instructor-led class either way, with the exam administered while you attend.
• Classes run as scheduled, with no cancellations, so you can plan time off with confidence.