Is certification keeping pace with changes in technology and education?
To maintain a career in IT, you must constantly acquire new skills and knowledge as you progress. All successful techies understand that being a lifelong learner is a top qualification for any IT-related job …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on F5 Certified Technology Specialist (F5-CTS) GTM
When most people hear “F5,” they perhaps think first of the widely-used scale for determining the …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Women
Today (March 8) is International Women’s Day. Women have been underrepresented in IT workplaces and professions for decades, but quite a few individuals and organizations have been working to foster …
Read ArticleIdentity Management Institute certification your gateway to new security frontiers
Since it was founded in 2008, the Identity Management Institute® (IMI) has become an international …
Read ArticleWhy certify? One man’s journey from learner to leader to educator
I recently hit a major career milestone: 20 years of working in and around the IT field. As I reflect on that time, it occurs to me that I’ve held a wide variety of IT certifications during those two decades and …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on GRC Professional
Ensuring smooth business function, corporate accountability, and internal stability is perhaps not technically an IT function. As enterprises and organizations have grown increasingly …
Read ArticleCertification can help you swing IT like Silent Cal
In 1925, the American Society of Newspaper Editors invited President Calvin Coolidge to address their national convention. During his remarks, he said, “The chief business of the American people is …
Read ArticleTest your knowledge of CompTIA Network+ topics, Part 2
Last month, we looked at the CompTIA Network+ certification (the second most popular vendor-neutral certification offered by CompTIA) and some questions based on topics found in the first three …
Read ArticleMake IT known: Market your certification program to the world
This article is a follow-up to my previous two-part article about how to create and build your own IT certification program. Once you’ve done the heavy lifting and gotten an IT certification program …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCSP
Hackers and other digital malefactors want everybody’s data. And in 2018, much of what both businesses and individual users might consider to be “their” data isn’t even stored in a location …
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