An effective cybersecurity training program can protect your organization from most forms of threat.
Awareness training provides employees with basic cyber hygiene knowledge; technical security training helps prevent malware and hacking attacks; while compliance training ensures they adhere to industry standards.
Effective cybersecurity training integrates security into the culture of your organization and addresses each ...
Continue Reading →There has been a lot of discussion on the Reddit/r/CompTIA about how hard it is to find an entry level IT position. This issue was addressed in a recent article by Bruce Schneier.
[2023.09.20] In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage:
Global cybersecurity ...
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By Bob Weiss
There are many performance based questions for the Core 1 and Core 2 A+ exams (220-1101 and 220-1102). Most of what follows is from a slide deck I acquired when I was teaching the A+ for CompTIA’s IT Futures Foundation. According to the metadata in the slide deck, this deck was assembled by instructor Andrew James Riemer in 2017. So ...
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There are many performance based questions for the Core 1 and Core 2 A+ exams (220-1101 and 220-1102). I have taken every A+ exam since the 220-801 and 220-802. I passed the most recent A+ exams 220-1101 and 1102 in September 2022. These are the PBQs that were part of my exams.
The PBQ questions show up first. There are between ...
Continue Reading →I have written many articles on certification and professional development, and this page is a collection of those articles.
James Wilson is back with a great article on the role of mentorship in professional development. I have enjoyed the support and encouragement of several mentors over my career. Finding a mentor or being a mentored and nurturing that relationship can be vital to your career.
By James Wilson
When it comes to our careers, we all look for professional development. The journey towards professional development isn’t all about training and on-the-job experience. Mentorship, a crucial element of professional ...
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Welcome to the first edition of Cert Week. For the last several years, I have been teaching professional certification classes in Information Technology, Networking, and Cybersecurity. Many of my posts are targeted at students preparing for a certification exam, I recently decided to create a dedicated feature page on certification topics and ...
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