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470 certifications, 50 roles, costs and paths. Free, no login required. Personal consulting from practitioners, whenever you want it.
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Quadrant of all 470 certs by market strength (X) and substance (Y). Filter by domain, vendor, full-text search.
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50+ NICE work roles mapped to matching certifications. Optional job-analyzer extracts requirements from postings.
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TCO calculator for your certification strategy over 1, 3 or 5 years. Acquisition, AMF, renewal, broken down per cert, bundle discounts included.
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Insights from the knowledge base
View all articles →How Does CertMap Rate Cybersecurity Certificates?
Scoring methodology across two axes (market strength × substance), 4 sub-criteria of 0–3 points each. Explains how the quadrant emerges.
Certification vs. Certificate: What's the Difference?
Personnel certification per ISO/IEC 17024 versus a training certificate. Why the distinction matters.
BSI IT-Grundschutz: Practitioners, Advisors, and the Accreditation Question
What distinguishes Practitioner from Advisor, and where does accreditation sit in the BSI path?
T.I.S.P.: Germany's Answer to the CISSP. A Missed Opportunity
How the German T.I.S.P. compares to CISSP, and why it didn't gain traction.
TCO Methodology in Portfolio Mode
How CertMap calculates the Total Cost of Ownership of a cybersecurity certification, and how bundle effects can shift a cert set's 5-year TCO by more than €5,000.