CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004: Advanced Security Practitioner 2026

The CASP+ CAS-004 is not a memorization exam — it is a scenario-basedassessment that tests whether you can think and act like a senior securityarchitect. This course is built to meet that standard.Every module is engineered around the four exam domains with the depth anddecision-level thinking CompTIA actually tests — not surface definitions,but real architectural reasoning under constraints.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT THIS COURSE COVERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━▸ Security Architecture (29%)Design Zero Trust architectures using NIST 800-207, SASE, ZTNA, andmicrosegmentation. Secure multi-cloud, andCNAPP. Architect resilient network defenses with NGFW, ZTNA, SD-WAN, andDMZ design. Apply FIDO2, PAM, and idedenvironments.▸ Security Operations (30%)Execute the full NIST 800-61 incidentdigitalforensics using Volatility 3, FTK Imager, and Windows artifact analysis.Build threat intelligence programs usT&CK,and hypothesis-driven threat hunting. Analyze malware with static anddynamic techniques and respond to rancompliance obligations intact.▸ Security Engineering & Cryptography (26%)Select the right algorithm for every ,Ed25519, and SHA-3 for current deployments; ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA(FIPS 204) for the post-quantum era. Design enterprise PKI hierarchies withoffline root CAs, OCSP Stapling, and vSecOpspipelines with SAST, DAST, SCA, and supply chain controls. HardenKubernetes, containers, and IaC deplo▸ Governance, Risk & Compliance (15%)Quantify risk using SLE, ALE, and FAIR. Apply NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, andCIS Controls v8 to real organizationaIPAA,PCI DSS v4.0, and CMMC requirements with confidence. Communicate risk toboards using MTTD/MTTR metrics and bu━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHY THIS COURSE IS DIFFERENT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Every module closes with scenario-basrror theactual exam format — multi-constraint situations where you must identify theroot cause, eliminate constraint-violarchitecturally correct response. That is the skill the CASP+ tests.You will also learn the exam traps that trip up well-prepared candidates:when to pick FIDO2 over TOTP, why OCSseparateBOLA from BFLA, and why "add more firewalls" is almost never the rightanswer to an identity problem.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHO THIS IS FOR━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━▸ Security+ holders ready to advance▸ Security engineers targeting senior or cloud security architect roles▸ DoD and federal contractors needingce▸ Experienced practitioners who want vendor-neutral, architect-level mastery━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━If you are ready to stop thinking likking likethe person who designs the architectuEnroll now and let's build the mindset that passes CASP+.