Certification Roadmap
Technical Security Certification Roadmap
Hands-on, technical-only cybersecurity certifications — positioned by the depth they actually demand, not by marketing tier. Domains run left to right, difficulty tier runs top to bottom. Click any certification for its full exam details.
Certification data sourced from PHK Knowledge Sharing.
This page reproduces a subset of their Technical Security Certification Roadmap dataset (144 of 225 certifications, 11 of 25 issuing bodies) in my own layout for quick personal reference. Difficulty scores, cost research, and taxonomy are their original work. For the full 225-certification interactive roadmap, badge tracking, and the raw dataset, see the original project and its GitHub repo.
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Penetration Testing
Offensive
Web & API Security
Offensive
Exploit Dev & Vuln Research
Offensive
SOC & Detection Engineering
Defensive
Incident Response
Defensive
Digital Forensics
Defensive
Malware Analysis & RE
Defensive
Threat Intel & Hunting
Defensive
Cloud & Container Security
Platform & Build
Security Engineering & Arch
Platform & Build
Secure Dev & DevSecOps
Platform & Build
OT / ICS / IoT & Hardware
Specialist
AI / ML Security
Specialist
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