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🏛️ Security Architect

Cybersecurity career path

Design secure enterprise and cloud architectures that hold up under attack.

Typical roles

• Security Architect
• Enterprise Architect
• Security Engineer

Suggested certifications, by phase

Foundation

• Security+ CompTIA Security+
• Net+ CompTIA Network+

Core

• SecurityX CompTIA SecurityX
• GDSA GIAC Defensible Security Architecture
• SABSA SCF SABSA Chartered Security Architect - Foundation Certificate

Advanced

• CCSP (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional
• CISSP (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• SABSA SCP SABSA Chartered Security Architect - Practitioner Certificate

Mastery

• CISSP Concentrations (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional Concentrations
• SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
• TOGAF OpenGroup TOGAF Certified

A suggestion, not a set of prerequisites — one or two certifications per phase is plenty.