Certs for application security?

Business Security Questions & Discussion

SWE adjacent with a lot of experience monitoring DAST/SAST, setting up test pipelines, zap test, etc. Experience finding lots of vulns in companies I've worked at and slowly picking up security over time.

Also just enjoy cyber sec, I've been watching low level learning for like 3 years now, and interested in the product & app sec. I have various certs (AWS, Domain-specific, ISTQB) but not any cybersec ones.

My current company pays out up to 10k on any certs I want so going to grind out a few. Which actually will move the needle towards getting the interview for a SWE who mostly works in test pipelines/devops world to landing first app sec role.

Posted Aug 14, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC

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