Pennsylvania IT instructor has reliable strategy for reaching his students

For eight years now I have been profiling information technology (IT) instructors. It's a fun job, and while all of them have been wonderful people, the best part of getting to know them is learning how ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Cloud storage and cloud services are becoming the default setting for quite a lot computing technology. In that sense, we're rapidly progressing toward a point at which "cloud security" is not a distinct ...

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Certification Survey Extra: The role of government in cybersecurity, Part 1

Though it's not an official motto, even the United States Postal Service embraces the ageworn expression about "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" preventing its mail carriers from "swift ...

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Job profile: Become a statistician

Statistics. The mere mention of the word strikes fear in the heart of countless humans. But you don't have to be daunted by it. Statistics are just numbers that tell a story. And who doesn't love a good ...

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The business case for IT certification

Is having an IT certification worth the effort, time, and cost of getting one? Not all tech professionals consider industry credentials necessary. According to the latest Tech Salary Report by employment facilitator ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Just the term "AI" has a romantic allure that lights up even the most mundane of contexts. As mundane, for example, as a web page describing a certification: "Artificial intelligence (AI) opens doors into ...

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Salary Survey Extra: What certification did you earn most recently?

Most career paths include some sort of mechanism for career growth and development. If you're a professional hit man, for example, then you might set out to kill someone, follow your target into an acting class ...

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Always be learning: Lock in your continuing education strategy

Achieving success as an IT industry worker requires a commitment to becoming a lifelong learner, someone who continually adds to their technical education as they advance through their career. To this end ...

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Job profile: SOC managers lead teams of cybersecurity professionals in a never-ending skirmish

There's a great deal of research done to track the ever-growing cost of data breaches and other ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CySA+

A cybersecurity analyst is sort of like the fictitious science doodad in the disaster movie San Andreas that can predict earthquakes. The job of an expert cybersecurity analyst is actually harder: The earthquake ...

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