This certification exam is designed for network security engineers and analysts who are tasked with designing secure network environments, implementing security policies and protocols related to IoT devices, and analyzing network systems for operational and security considerations, in addition to the security operations center (SOC) analysts who analyze and respond to security incidents, and develop organizational response processes. It is also beneficial to solutions architects, developers, and testers who design, develop, and test software solutions for their organizations. This certification is also relevant to operations engineers who deploy and maintain embedded and mission critical systems and perform organizational gap analysis.