What's the Benefit of Cyber Security Certifications?
Explore significant, career-impacting certification value for both professionals and employers.
Why Certification Matters
Job Security
82% of organizations prefer hiring candidates with certifications. The right certification could be what gets your foot in the door at almost any enterprise. Certs signal to HR teams and hiring managers that you have the specific job-role skills they need.
Enterprise Security
Certifications provide confirmation of the skills needed to combat breaches and mitigate threats to the enterprise. 94% of cybersecurity practitioners believe their certs have better prepared them for their current role, allowing them to successfully protect their organization.
Proven Ability
If you have a certification proving you've mastered a specific skillset, both employers and your industry peers know that you've got what it takes. Hands-on practical testing, like GIAC's CyberLive, takes this skill verification a step further.
Personal Validation
Setting goals to learn new skills and pass a certification exam can be a challenging and rewarding internal experience. Proving to yourself that you can master skills and conquer the exam creates a sense of purpose and personal satisfaction.
What GIAC Professionals Say
Why Certify with GIAC?
GIAC certifications span the breadth of infosec
GIAC certifications are a mile deep for specialized job-focused tasks across industry focus areas including offensive operations, cyber defense, cloud security, DFIR, management, and ICS.
GIAC exams test real-world skills
Every certification confirms a practitioner's abilities and likelihood of success in a real-world work environment. GIAC exams with CyberLive take this validation a step further, requiring candidates to perform lab-based, hands-on tasks.
Industry recognition and respect
GIAC certifications are listed as preferred qualifications on thousands of job postings across the globe. That's because hiring managers and infosec professionals know that GIAC certifications are a guarantee of critical skill mastery.
Dedication to exam quality and relevancy
Our team of exam developers is made up of experts who have devoted their professional lives to infosec - both at GIAC and as practitioners in the field. Every detail of our exams is rigorously evaluated by a psychometrician to ensure fairness and accuracy.
Start the path to become a security expert
GIAC can guide you on your career journey through progressively more complex skills and job roles. The GIAC Security Expert (GSE), recently ranked the highest-value certification in the industry, is widely recognized as one of the most challenging and meaningful credentials in cybersecurity.
Become part of the SANS & GIAC family
Everyone who successfully completes their certification exam is welcomed into the community to share information, explore resources, and create new connections, and high scorers are invited to join the GIAC Advisory Board.
Resources
Blog Posts
Check out the GIAC blog to read about key cybersecurity trends, how the right credentials can help practitioners and hiring managers, and GIAC updates you'll want to know about.
Research Papers
Read up on the latest industry research, trends, and methods you'll want to know - written and published by GIAC certified professionals.