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CyberSec First Responder®

Vendor-neutral cybersecurity certification in threat detection, incident response, and defensive cybersecurity knowledge.

Licensing authority: CertNexus · Application information

Initial by examination
CyberSec First Responder®
Applicability
The current CertNexus CFR page identifies CFR-410, sunset TBD, and directly links the submitted version 1.10 blueprint. Exact official effective dates for credential, route, claims and examination version are not published here and remain null; document issue/modification dates and the month-only launch date are not substituted. Only the initial qualification route is registered.
Delivery Exclusions
The linked handbook prohibits residents of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Sudan from taking a CertNexus test or becoming certified; this task covers the US.
Eligibility
No application fee, supporting documentation or other eligibility verification measures for CFR exam eligibility; no formal prerequisites to register and schedule. This is not a claim that the examination voucher is free. Training is not required, and readiness assessment and training resources are preparatory options rather than additional certification examinations.
Qualification
Pass the associated CFR-410 examination and comply with the CertNexus Candidate Agreement; agreement acceptance is required to launch the exam.
Recommended Experience
Experience and knowledge descriptions are target-candidate recommendations, not eligibility thresholds. The current page describes approximately three to five years and the adopted blueprint describes two to five years; neither overrides the blueprint's express absence of formal prerequisites.
Registration
Obtain a voucher through training, CertNexus or Pearson VUE, or schedule and pay through the Pearson account workflow. Appointments may be made in advance or on the desired day, subject to availability; delivery is at Pearson VUE test centers or online through Pearson OnVUE. Voucher and all attempts expire 18 months after purchase unless otherwise noted. Candidates generally need registration confirmation and government-issued identification, with delivery-specific rules to be checked with the testing center.

CyberSec First Responder®

Provider
Pearson VUE; test centers or Pearson OnVUE
Format
Multiple Choice/Multiple Response
Exam questions
Total questions: 80.
Time limit
120 minutes including 5 minutes for the Candidate Agreement and 5 minutes for the Pearson VUE tutorial
Passing score
70% or 73% depending on exam form; forms have been statistically equated
Examination outline
  • Identify (22%)
    • Identify assets (applications, workstations, servers, appliances, operating systems, and others).
    • Identify factors that affect the tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination architecture’s form and function.
    • Identify and evaluate vulnerabilities and threat actors.
    • Identify applicable compliance, standards, frameworks, and best practices for privacy.
    • Identify applicable compliance, standards, frameworks, and best practices for security.
    • Identify and conduct vulnerability assessment processes.
    • Establish relationships between internal teams and external groups like law enforcement agencies and vendors.
  • Protect (24%)
    • Analyze and report system security posture trends.
    • Apply security policies to meet the system’s cybersecurity objectives and defend against cyber attacks and intrusions.
    • Collaborate across internal and external organizational lines to enhance the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information.
    • Employ approved defense-in-depth principles and practices.
    • Develop and implement cybersecurity independent audit processes.
    • Ensure that plans of action are in place for vulnerabilities identified during risk assessments, audits, and inspections.
    • Protect organizational resources through security updates.
    • Protect identity management and access control within the organization, including physical and remote access.
  • Detect (18%)
    • Analyze common indicators of potential compromise, anomalies, and patterns.
    • Perform analysis of log files from various sources to identify possible threats to network security.
    • Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
    • Take appropriate action to document and escalate incidents that may cause an ongoing and immediate impact on the environment.
    • Determine the extent of threats and recommend courses of action or countermeasures to mitigate risks.
  • Respond (19%)
    • Execute the incident response process.
    • Collect and seize documentary or physical evidence and create a forensically sound duplicate that ensures the original evidence is not unintentionally modified to use for data recovery and analysis processes.
    • Correlate incident data and create reports.
    • Implement system security measures in accordance with established procedures.
    • Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of intrusion sets.
    • Interface with internal teams and external organizations to ensure appropriate and accurate dissemination of incident information.
  • Recover (17%)
    • Implement recovery planning processes and procedures to restore systems and assets affected by cybersecurity incidents.
    • Implement specific cybersecurity countermeasures for systems and applications.
    • Review forensic images and other data sources for recovery of potentially relevant information.
    • Provide advice and input for disaster recovery, contingency, and continuity of operations plans.
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