CySA+ salary data
Introduction
Before you decide to earn a new certification, you want to feel confident that it’s actually going to help you earn a higher salary and unlock new career advancement opportunities. CompTIA offers the CySA+ as a way to teach cybersecurity pros to apply behavioral analytics and data analysis to the ever-evolving task of detecting and preventing threats.
But how much can you expect to earn with a CySA+?
It’s not a simple question to answer. Your CySA+ certification can be used towards a number of career paths in the cybersecurity field, and the pay can vary quite a bit. Some factors that influence your pay include your professional experience, your education and even the city you live in. Luckily, we live in the era of big data where statistics are readily available to help us make important professional decisions.
To shed some light on what you can expect to make with your CySA+, we’ll look at data from sources like Cyber Seek, Glassdoor and PayScale. While the numbers we look at are averages and not the exact dollar amount you’ll make, there’s still a lot to learn from the data. You’ll also see how factors like education, location, and even company affect your earning potential.
We’ll draw that data from a list of the most common job titles for CySA+ holders, according to CompTIA. Jobs that commonly use CompTIA CySA+ include:
- IT security analyst
- Security operations center (SOC) analyst
- Vulnerability analyst
- Cybersecurity specialist
- Threat intelligence analyst
- Security engineer
- Cybersecurity analyst
Average salary for CySA+ holders
The salary you can expect to earn with your CySA+ depends on your job role. To give you a clearer picture of what you might earn, we collected salary data from PayScale for common job titles for CySA+ holders. Generally (Read more...)
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Infosec Resources authored by Christine McKenzie. Read the original post at: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infosecResources/~3/QzS96kLwiEc/
