- OPSA
The OSSTMM Professional Security Analyst (OPSA) is a certificationprovided by the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies. Itis a certification of applied knowledge designed to improve the work done as aprofessional security analyst. Those who have passed the exam have proved that they can walk the walk in data network security analysis. An OPSA is capable of critical security evaluations and decision-makingrequired in both technical and management fields. The certification goals aredesigned to certify resourcefulness, the scientific method and the
OSSTMM methodology.Courses are provided by certified training partners as well as recognizededucational institutions under the ISECOM Academic Alliance program. ISECOMprovides certification of course trainers and certification of the students whosuccessfully pass the exam.
Courses
ISECOM and certified training partners provide training course in order toprepare students for the exam. In general, those courses are designed to teachcritical security thinking and the OSSTMM methodology. The students need tosolve practical security analysis exercises and they learn how to read standardtool output.
Links
* [http://www.isecom.org/certification/opsa.shtml ISECOM - OPSA Accredited Certification]
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