CY0-001

About This Exam

CY0-001 is the exam for the CompTIA SecAI+ certification, the first certification in CompTIA's Expansion Series. It validates the ability to explain basic AI concepts related to cybersecurity, such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and automation, AI use cases in security, and AI-driven threats like automated phishing, polymorphic malware, adversarial machine learning and the malicious use of generative AI; to secure AI systems with security controls for data, models, data pipelines and inference layers, secure deployment across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments and mitigation of adversarial attacks; to apply AI-assisted security through AI-driven detection and response, automated triage, alert correlation and orchestration, threat modeling, behavior analysis and continuous monitoring; and to support AI governance, risk and compliance with global regulatory frameworks, GRC practices across the AI lifecycle and responsible AI use, including ethics, legal standards, GDPR and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. It is for security analysts, security engineers and other cybersecurity professionals with three to four years of IT experience, two of them hands-on in security, who secure, govern and integrate AI in security operations.