Single voucher
A$599 + GST
A$658.90 inc. GST
- 1× exam attempt
- Voucher emailed within 24 hours
CompTIA Security+ exam voucher
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Exam Voucher
The official SY0-701 exam voucher from a CompTIA Authorised Partner. Priced in your local currency, emailed within 24 hours of payment, and valid 12 months worldwide.
Voucher + Retake Assurance
A$799 + GST
A$878.90 inc. GST
- 1× exam attempt
- 1× free retake if you fail your first sit
- Voucher emailed within 24 hours
Email delivery within 24 hours · Voucher valid 12 months · Same official voucher as buying direct from CompTIA
CompTIA Authorised Partner
Two options to suit your readiness
Both options deliver the same official CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) voucher. The single user voucher gives one person one attempt at the SY0-701 exam. The retake assurance bundle adds a second attempt if the first does not pass.
CompTIA Security+ Voucher
A$599 + GST
A$658.90 inc. GST
- 1× exam attempt
- Email delivery within 24 hours
- Valid 12 months globally
- Book with Pearson VUE, enter the code at checkout, then sit at a test centre or via OnVUE
Includes free retake
Voucher + Retake Assurance
A$799 + GST
A$878.90 inc. GST
- 1× exam attempt
- 1× free retake if you fail your first attempt
- Email delivery within 24 hours
- Valid 12 months globally
- Book with Pearson VUE, enter the code at checkout, then sit at a test centre or via OnVUE
Who Security+ is for
Who Security+ is for
- IT and cybersecurity professionals with one to three years of experience seeking the foundational cybersecurity credential.
- Network and system administrators moving into security-focused roles.
- Career changers from IT into cybersecurity who want a recognised, vendor-neutral starting point.
- Australian Government IT staff needing a DoD 8140 / IRAP-aligned credential.
- Candidates preparing for ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor. Security+ provides the operational security foundation.
Skills you will demonstrate
Skills you will demonstrate
- Identify various types of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities, including malware, social engineering, and application attacks.
- Use security technologies and tools such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and endpoint security to protect systems.
- Design secure network architectures, implement secure systems, and apply secure protocols.
- Manage identity and access concepts including authentication, authorisation, and accounting to ensure secure access control.
- Assess and manage risk through risk analysis, mitigation strategies, and business continuity planning.
- Apply cryptography concepts including encryption algorithms, public key infrastructure (PKI), and digital signatures.
- Implement compliance and operational security measures including security policies, procedures, and best practices.
What is CompTIA Security+?
CompTIA Security+ is a globally recognised foundational cybersecurity certification. It validates the core skills required for any cybersecurity role across threats and vulnerabilities, security architecture, security operations, and governance, risk, and compliance. The current version of the exam is SY0-701, released by CompTIA in November 2023.
Security+ is the most widely held cybersecurity certification worldwide and is recognised across Australian government and private-sector cyber roles. It is approved by the U.S. Department of Defense under the DoD 8140 framework (which superseded DoD 8570.01-M) for a range of cyber workforce roles. Full details are on the official CompTIA Security+ certification page.
Official exam information (SY0-701)
All facts below come straight from the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam objectives.
90
Max questions
90 min
Duration
750 / 900
Passing score
3 years
Certification validity
2 types
Multiple-choice and performance-based
7 languages
Available exam languages
Exam domains
The SY0-701 exam covers five domains, weighted as follows. Click any domain to see the official topic breakdown.
Domain Exam weight
General Security Concepts 12%
- Security controls: comparing technical, preventive, managerial, deterrent, operational, detective, physical, corrective, compensating, and directive controls.
- Fundamental concepts: summarising confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA); non-repudiation; authentication, authorisation, and accounting (AAA); zero trust; and deception / disruption technology.
- Change management: explaining business processes, technical implications, documentation, and version control.
- Cryptographic solutions: using public key infrastructure (PKI), encryption, obfuscation, hashing, digital signatures, and blockchain.
Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations 22%
- Threat actors and motivations: comparing nation-states, unskilled attackers, hacktivists, insider threats, organised crime, shadow IT; motivations like data exfiltration, espionage, and financial gain.
- Threat vectors and attack surfaces: message-based, unsecure networks, social engineering, file-based, voice call, supply chain, and vulnerable software vectors.
- Vulnerabilities: application, hardware, mobile device, virtualisation, operating system (OS), cloud-specific, web-based, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
- Malicious activity: analysing malware, password, application, physical, network, and cryptographic attacks.
- Mitigation techniques: segmentation, access control, configuration enforcement, hardening, isolation, and patching.
Security Architecture 18%
- Architecture models: comparing on-premises, cloud, virtualisation, Internet of Things (IoT), industrial control systems (ICS), and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Enterprise infrastructure: applying security principles to infrastructure considerations, control selection, and secure communication / access.
- Data protection: comparing data types, securing methods, general considerations, and classifications.
- Resilience and recovery: high availability, site considerations, testing, power, platform diversity, backups, and continuity of operations.
Security Operations 28%
- Computing resources: secure baselines, mobile solutions, hardening, wireless security, application security, sandboxing, and monitoring.
- Asset management: acquisition, disposal, assignment, and monitoring / tracking of hardware, software, and data assets.
- Vulnerability management: identifying, analysing, remediating, validating, and reporting vulnerabilities.
- Alerting and monitoring: monitoring tools and computing resource activities.
- Enterprise security: firewalls, IDS / IPS, DNS filtering, DLP, NAC, and EDR / XDR (endpoint and extended detection and response).
- Identity and access management: provisioning, SSO, MFA, and privileged access tools.
- Automation and orchestration: automation use cases, scripting benefits, and considerations.
- Incident response: processes, training, testing, root cause analysis, threat hunting, and digital forensics.
- Data sources: using log data and other sources to support investigations.
Security Program Management and Oversight 20%
- Security governance: guidelines, policies, standards, procedures, external considerations, monitoring, governance structures, and roles / responsibilities.
- Risk management: risk identification, assessment, analysis, register, tolerance, appetite, strategies, reporting, and business impact analysis (BIA).
- Third-party risk: vendor assessment, selection, agreements, monitoring, questionnaires, and rules of engagement.
- Security compliance: compliance reporting, consequences of non-compliance, monitoring, and privacy.
- Audits and assessments: attestation, internal / external audits, and penetration testing.
- Security awareness: phishing training, anomalous behaviour recognition, user guidance, reporting, and monitoring.
Source: CompTIA Security+ official certification page. Refer to CompTIA for the most current exam objectives PDF.
What you get when you buy from us
- A fixed price in your own currency. AUD, USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, NZD or INR. You are charged exactly the price shown, with no FX margin added at settlement.
- Tax invoice with every purchase. Suitable for employer or business reimbursement. Australian buyers are charged 10% GST and receive a GST tax invoice under ABN 55 668 364 261; orders from outside Australia are GST-free exports.
- Voucher emailed within 24 hours. Wherever you are, the code is issued from the CompTIA partner portal and emailed to you.
- Redeemable worldwide. Sit the exam at any Pearson VUE testing centre globally or via OnVUE online proctoring.
- 12-month validity. Schedule and sit the SY0-701 exam any time within 12 months of issue.
- A real person to email. Our team answers from Australia (AEST, UTC+10), usually within one business hour.
Where to buy a Security+ voucher, and what sellers charge
The voucher code is the same wherever you buy it. Only the price and the service around it change. CompTIA raised its exam prices on 1 June 2026, so figures published before then are out of date. Prices below verified 14 July 2026.
- The CompTIA Store (buying direct). US$439 for the SY0-701 voucher, up from US$425. Billed in USD, so a card outside the US also pays its own conversion margin, and there is no local tax invoice.
- Mindset Cyber (CompTIA Authorised Partner). A$599 + GST (A$658.90 inc. GST) for the single voucher, or A$799 + GST (A$878.90 inc. GST) with Retake Assurance. That is a fixed price in your own currency, charged exactly as shown, and it is less than buying direct from CompTIA.
- Unauthorised resellers. Cheaper listings exist. The risk is that the code is grey-market or expired, and CompTIA will not help you if it fails at Pearson VUE. Only an Authorised Partner code is generated against a real partner account.
We are an Authorised Partner, so the code you get from us is the one CompTIA would have issued you itself.
Which exam version will you sit, SY0-701 or SY0-801?
Buy for SY0-701. It is the current, live version of the Security+ exam and it is what your voucher will be used for.
A successor is expected. Training providers and the CompTIA Instructors Network have discussed an SY0-801 landing in late 2026, adding coverage of large language models and AI-assisted attacks. CompTIA has not confirmed an exam code, a beta date, or a launch date, so treat every date you see online as a rumour, including ours. We will update this page when CompTIA publishes something.
What that means practically: CompTIA vouchers are version-agnostic and valid 12 months from issue, and when CompTIA does retire a version it normally runs the old and new exams side by side for around six months. Buying now does not lock you out. If you are ready to study, sitting SY0-701 while it is current is the lower-risk path.
Why buy your CompTIA Security+ voucher from Mindset Cyber
- CompTIA Authorised Partner. Voucher codes generated direct via the official CompTIA partner programme. Same official voucher as buying direct from CompTIA.
- You are charged what you see. A fixed price in your own currency, set by us, not converted by your card issuer at checkout.
- PECB Platinum Partner. The same Mindset Cyber operations team that delivers our PECB ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 training.
- Email delivery within 24 hours. Your voucher code is emailed to you within 24 hours of payment.
- Optional Retake Assurance. For first-time candidates who want a safety net on a single voucher purchase.
Career path after Security+
Where Security+ takes you
Once you hold Security+, the natural next step for AI-era security work is the CompTIA SecAI+ (CY0-001) AI security certification, CompTIA's expansion certification for securing AI systems.
Security+ is the most widely required entry-level credential in Australian cybersecurity recruitment. CompTIA lists it as the foundation for the following DoD 8140 work roles (the standard the US Department of Defense uses to map cyber jobs to certifications, and a useful proxy for Australian Government and IRAP-aligned roles):
- Cyber defence analyst
- Incident responder
- Vulnerability analyst
- Security control assessor
- System administrator
- Network specialist
- Systems planner
- IT project manager
- Information security manager
- Secure software assessor
Common next steps
Where to go after Security+
- CompTIA CySA+: defensive cybersecurity analyst skills (threat hunting, SOC operations, incident response).
- CompTIA PenTest+: offensive security, hands-on penetration testing methodology.
- CompTIA SecurityX: advanced security architecture and engineering for senior roles.
- PECB ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor: the standards-and-audit layer that complements Security+ for GRC and compliance careers in Australia.
How it works
- Buy your voucher above using the secure Stripe checkout.
- Your voucher code is emailed to you within 24 hours.
- Sign in to CompTIA Central and launch exam scheduling with Pearson VUE. Choose a testing centre, or OnVUE online proctoring from home.
- At the Review and Pay step, choose to pay with an exam voucher and enter your code. It covers the exam fee.
- Sit the exam and get your result the same day.
What is included
- Voucher generated direct via the CompTIA Authorised Partner programme. Identical to a voucher bought from the CompTIA Store.
- Valid 12 months from the date of issue.
- Book your exam through CompTIA Central / Pearson VUE and apply the code at checkout. Sit the exam at any Pearson VUE testing centre globally, or via OnVUE online proctoring.
- Email support from our team, usually answered within one business hour (AEST, UTC+10).
- Retake Assurance option at A$799 + GST (A$878.90 inc. GST) includes one free retake if you fail your first attempt.
Preparing for the exam?
Study before you sit. Each guide is published in full on this site.
- How to pass CompTIA Security+ in Australia: the 6 to 8 week study plan, resources, and exam-day checklist.
- CompTIA Security+ exam format breakdown (SY0-701): domain weights, question types, and time budget.
- CompTIA Security+ cost in Australia: voucher, training, and ongoing CEU costs.
- Security+ vs ISO 27001 Lead Implementer: which credential fits your career path.
Frequently asked questions
How much is a CompTIA Security+ exam voucher in Australia?
A$599 + GST (A$658.90 inc. GST) for a single SY0-701 voucher, or A$799 + GST (A$878.90 inc. GST) for the Voucher + Retake Assurance bundle. Australian buyers receive a GST tax invoice; orders from outside Australia are GST-free exports.
Do you provide a GST tax invoice?
Australian buyers are charged 10% GST and receive a GST tax invoice under ABN 55 668 364 261, suitable for employer or business reimbursement. Orders from outside Australia are GST-free exports, and you receive a tax invoice showing no GST.
Is this an official CompTIA voucher?
Yes. Mindset Cyber is a CompTIA Authorised Partner. The voucher code we deliver is generated by CompTIA and is identical to one bought direct from the CompTIA Store.
How quickly will I receive the voucher?
Within 24 hours of successful payment. The voucher code is emailed to the address you provide at checkout. We pull each code from the CompTIA partner portal on demand and confirm it to you by email.
How long is the voucher valid?
12 months from the date of issue. You can schedule and sit the Security+ (SY0-701) exam any time within that window, in person or via online proctoring.
Can I take the exam online?
Yes. Schedule the exam through Pearson VUE and choose OnVUE online proctoring, paying with your exam voucher at the Review and Pay step. You can also sit the exam in person at any Pearson VUE testing centre globally.
What if I fail the exam?
If you bought the Voucher + Retake Assurance option at A$799 + GST (A$878.90 inc. GST), your second attempt is free. If you bought the single voucher and need to retake, you will need to purchase another voucher. We recommend the Retake Assurance option for first-time candidates.
What is the difference between Security+ and other CompTIA certs?
Security+ is the foundational cybersecurity certification from CompTIA. It sits between A+/Network+ (IT entry) and CySA+/PenTest+ (cybersecurity specialisations). For Australian cybersecurity professionals, Security+ is the most commonly required entry-level credential.
Where can I sit the exam?
Anywhere. You book through Pearson VUE and apply the voucher code at checkout, then sit the exam at any Pearson VUE testing centre globally, or via OnVUE online proctoring from anywhere with a stable internet connection.
What is the difference between the Single User and Retake Assurance options?
The Single User voucher gives one person one attempt at the SY0-701 exam for A$599 + GST (A$658.90 inc. GST). The Retake Assurance option at A$799 + GST (A$878.90 inc. GST) is the same voucher plus a second voucher that we issue if you fail the first attempt and send us proof. If you pass on the first try, the second voucher is simply not issued. The price difference reflects the safety net only.
Do you offer Security+ training, or just the voucher?
Mindset Cyber currently offers Security+ vouchers only. For exam preparation we recommend a structured study path: the official CompTIA CertMaster Learn (sold direct by CompTIA), Professor Messer's free Security+ video course, and timed practice questions through any reputable provider. If you are also pursuing the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor or Lead Implementer track for compliance roles, see our PECB course range.
How does Security+ compare to ISO 27001 Lead Auditor?
Security+ validates foundational, vendor-neutral cybersecurity skills across threats, architecture, operations, and governance. ISO 27001 Lead Auditor validates the ability to plan and conduct ISMS audits against the ISO 27001 standard. They cover different problem spaces: Security+ is the operational security foundation, ISO 27001 LA is the audit and compliance layer. Many Australian cybersecurity careers hold both. See our PECB ISO 27001 Lead Auditor course for the audit pathway. For the implementer-side comparison, see our Security+ vs ISO 27001 Lead Implementer guide.