Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on EC-Council CCISO
Every organization with significant digital assets — which, in 2019, is most of them — needs a strong security policy (and playbook) and dedicated cybersecurity personnel. And that’s really the minimum …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: The social media app of choice for certified professionals
We live in an age where at least some things — certainly some perceptions of things — are shaped and defined by social media. Maybe not as much in 2019 as, say, five years ago. Even with privacy concerns …
Read ArticleTest your knowledge of AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner topics
The lowest-level certification in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem is that of Cloud Practitioner, considered a foundational certification essential to further exploration of the AWS certification realm. …
Read ArticleThe rise of role-based credentials is reshaping certification programs
How do you define your job role in information technology (IT)? Are you in the role that brings you greatest happiness, or are you planning a move in that direction? Over the past months we’ve seen a gradual …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Men
Last month in this space we zeroed in on the women who participated in our most recent Salary Survey. Not long after that we fielded a comment to the effect that it would be interesting to compare …
Read ArticleCertification Survey Extra: How much of the data in Big Data is superfluous?
It’s not for nothing that Big Data is noted for its bigness. Data visualization software company Domo, which issues an annual report about data generation and storage, projects that by next year there will be …
Read ArticleRed Hat unveils new-and-improved Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) credential
Spring is the season of new life and right now leading open source company Red Hat is making …
Read ArticleThis is not my beautiful house! Coping with Impostor Syndrome
You’ve just started on at a new information technology (IT) job. You find yourself feeling overwhelmed. You’re not completely certain about everything you’ve been asked to get done, and you certainly aren’t …
Read ArticlePlease take our 2019 Security Certification Survey
We live in a world, in 2019, that is constantly at peril of the next seismic shiver caused by this or that information security breach. Even when information security is not in the headlines, it is often at the root …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Do certified IT pros have college degrees?
It’s a verifiable fact that not everyone who works in the IT realm, whether directly for a technology company or as IT staff somewhere outside the tech business world, has a college or university …
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