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Happy All Hallows Eve (Halloween) from your friends at Certification Magazine

Trick or treat! It's the day before All Saints Day, and the ghosts and goblins are out in force. Halloween is kind of just another day at the office for the Certification Magazine team. There's work to be done ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst

According to statistics compiled by the National Computer Security Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, nearly 70 percent of U.S. businesses detected at least one cybercrime ...

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Certification Survey Extra: My first information security certification

People in the IT realm have heard over and over again about the need for skilled information security professionals. High-profile data breaches have become so commonplace in recent years ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on HCISPP

Thanks to a Herculean labor of digitization, medical records that used to occupy acres of hospital and health clinic real estate and require both manpower and man hours to (continually) organize and access ...

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Certification Survey Extra: Does security certification impact hiring?

When it comes to getting oneself hired to work in IT security, there's probably no magical formula that will ensure success in every situation. In our most recent annual Salary Survey, on the other hand ...

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IT Certification Council still going strong after 10 years

In 2007, George W. Bush was president, the crime drama The Departed won the Oscar for Best Picture, and an exciting young NBA star named LeBron James played in the NBA Finals for the first time ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCNP Security

In 2017, the phrase "secure computer network" is practically an oxymoron. As numerous recent breaches have shown, no computer network is entirely safe, and many of them likely aren't even mostly ...

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Certification Survey Extra: Time to security certification

So it's probably time for a brief recap: With our most recent survey of certified IT professionals, we switched things up. After spending the last few years gathering salary data for every issue of ...

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Security Certification Survey: Hackers are getting smarter and more relentless

When then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump said during his first debate with Hillary Clinton in September 2016, "The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable," he ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on EC-Council Certified Security Analyst

It's an unusual day that doesn't bring news of some sort pertaining to information security. Whether it's headlines about the latest gigantic data breach, fallout from the latest gigantic data breach ...

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