A certification holder has the skills to understand and assess security of an Active Directory environment. A certificate holder has demonstrated the understanding of AD security. He can identify and enumerate interesting information and execute variety of attack techniques like local and domain privilege escalation, persistence, trust abuse and antivirus evasion with minimal chances of detection.

Earners of the CompTIA Security+ certification have the knowledge and skills necessary to perform core security functions required of any cybersecurity role. CompTIA Security+ professionals know how to identify and address potential threats, attacks and vulnerabilities and they have established techniques in risk management, risk mitigation, threat management and intrusion detection.