Salary Survey Extra: Salute, shrug, side-eye or scowl at cryptocurrency?

What a difference a year makes. As the calendar turned over from 2021 to 2022, optimism about cryptocurrency was possibly as high as it's ever been. Stock prices were soaring, coin exchanges ...

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An overview of six technologies that could shape the digital landscape in 2023

I love this century! Innovations and advances in technology have grown exponentially with new technologies emerging on a seemingly daily basis. This century and, indeed, this decade, is like a candy shop ...

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Wishing you a wintry and wondrous Washington's Birthday

The Certification Magazine home office is closed today in honor of the U.S. holiday of Washington’s Birthday (also informally known as Presidents Day). We’ll be back tomorrow (Feb. 21), with more of the all-around ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCNP Security

Any organization — public or private, corporate or government, commercial or nonprofit — that maintains a computer network is at risk of a cyberattack. Just last year, major attacks were perpetrated against ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Tablets and smartphones in the workplace

In 1926 — just 50 years after Alexander Graham Bell either successfully invented the telephone, or successfully beat Elisha Gray to the U.S. Patent Office — fellow pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla created the first ...

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Job profile: Become a Linux consultant

A Linux consultant is a server computing specialist responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and securing systems and applications across Linux-based infrastructure. Linux is a low-cost ...

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Evaluating different methods of preparing for a certification exam, Part 1

Discipline has always been a defining element of success. And discipline is critical to any individual effort to prepare for and pass an IT certification exam. Bear that in mind as we consider a handful of ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)

The city of Palo Alto in California is named for an iconic coast redwood tree, El Palo Alto — 110 feet tall ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Settling the creamy vs. crunchy peanut butter conundrum

In the long and nourishing history of dietary staples, perhaps no issue has proven so divisive as the contentious debate between crunchy peanut butter and creamy (or smooth) peanut butter. It's a binary, on-or-off ...

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Please take our 2023 Security Certification Survey

You can't put a price tag on love and friendship, but you can determine the dollars-and-cents cost of not loving your cybersecurity staff. According to data compiled by IBM, in 2022 the average cost of an ...

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