Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA)

Course Overview

The Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA) course is a vendor neutral certification preparatory course with the objective to deliver the importance of vulnerability assessments by providing intricate knowledge and skills in the Vulnerability Assessment arena. The CVA course provides foundational knowledge of general VA tools as well as popular exploits an IT engineer should be familiar with.

The Certified Vulnerability Assessor is a fundamental cyber security course that focuses on vulnerability assessments. The CVA course focuses on the basic knowledge of conducting a vulnerability assessment and analyze the outcomes to prevent break-ins to the network infrastructure of an organization. The course teaches the candidates to identify the basic malware and virus patterns and the tools and techniques required to prevent the infiltration of the malware and virus into the network. The graduating students will be able to effectively perform a security vulnerability assessment on a network and secure the organization’s IT infrastructure.

Exam Information

The Certified Vulnerability Assessor exam is taken online through Mile2’s Assessment and Certification System (“MACS”), which is accessible on your mile2.account. The exam will take 2 hours and consist of 100 multiple choice questions.

Target Audience

• Information System Owners
• Analysts
• Ethical Hackers
• ISSO’s
• Cyber Security Managers
• IT Engineers

Requirements

Although there are no prerequisites to take the course or sit the exam, it is recommended prospective learners have basic understanding of networking.