Job profile: Become an information security manager
With all of the hype, both good and bad, surrounding cybersecurity, it is important for businesses and organizations to continually review the positions that typically fill out the cybersecurity …
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Exploring the pros and cons of the brave new world of online conferences and conventions
Most of us can agree that 2020 was, in many respects, a train wreck. The ripples caused by …
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The worst advice I ever got about how to get certified
As you traverse the path of life, you will encounter a lot of well-intentioned people giving very poor advice. Much like the handful of key characters wandering through The Sixth Sense — the ones …
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The best advice I ever got about how to get certified
I sometimes look back and mentally review all of the good advice I have received in my life. Everything from “You can’t expect everyone to love you,” to “People generally do good things …
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Job profile: Become a data warehouse analyst
Before we start, I think it’s very important to define what a data warehouse is. The clinical definition, courtesy of Wikipedia, is that a data warehouse, sometimes also called an …
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Job profile: Become a site reliability engineer
With technology evolving in so many different directions, it has becoming increasingly hard to keep track of the siloed job roles that companies keep throwing out there in employment postings. Gone …
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Job profile: Become a software development engineer
To create or have the ability to create — this is the dream of so many people. There are only a select few, however, who actually get the chance to just … make something …
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Job profile: Become a data architect
What does it mean to design the “guts” of something? What is it like to put together the scaffolding of a building — a building, say, made out of data? Data architects create blueprints for data …
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Six trends that will drive technology development in 2021 — and beyond
It’s still 2020 as I write this, but the end is in sight. It seems like it was years ago that the COVID-19 pandemic hit, with its resulting chaos and disruption. For a number of individuals, the struggle …
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CertMag’s holiday reading recommendations
It’s such a treat to get to write about different things now and then. Over the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday break, I plan on catching up on some reading. I currently crank through …
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