Salary Survey 2021: IT professionals tend to be older, get certified early
A lot can change in five years. In or around 1450, a goldsmith opened a print shop in Mainz, Germany with money borrowed from his brother-in-law. By 1455, novice printer Johannes Gutenberg …
Read ArticleCertMag salutes John Lewis on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today is a holiday in the United States that honors Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who dedicated his adult life to ending racial inequality. Dr. King focused his work …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on PC Pro
Advancements in software and a sustained increase in overall familiarity — even people who don’t own a computer probably use one at work or school — make us feel like we’re all a little smarter …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: The next President of the United States
Here’s a pop quiz for political junkies (as well as citizens of the world at large): On Jan. 20, [Fill in the blank] will the take the oath of office of President of the United States. The answer is easy — it’s Joe Biden …
Read ArticlePlease take our Security Certification Survey
In the movie Swordfish, a rogue government agent played by John Travolta sets up a test for a paroled hacker played by Hugh Jackman. The idea is for Travolta’s character to find out …
Read ArticleSalary Survey 2021: Certification keeps skills sharp, adds salary oomph
You don’t have to have a certification to work in IT. And not every worker who has a certification is inarguably better equipped to do his or her job than folks with no professional …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on (ISC)² CSSLP
It’s hard to imagine a world without software, which is so deeply embedded at all levels of public and private infrastructure — to say nothing of its ubiquitous presence in on the internet and in …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Does more certs on your résumé = more money in your pocket?
In a letter to Elizabeth Virginia Wallace dated Sept. 5, 1911, future U.S. president Harry S. Truman …
Read ArticleSalary Survey 2021: Moving on (?) from COVID-19
The Biblical monarch Solomon is alleged to have written that “there is no new thing under the sun” nearly a thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ. It’s sometimes comforting to reflect that …
Read ArticleSalary Survey 2021: An all-new Salary Survey 75
The late publisher Malcolm Forbes is alleged (in his own magazine) to have said, “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” It doesn’t …
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