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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISC2 CGRC

It's relatively rare in the IT certification industry for a certification to be renamed. The name of your IT certification tends to be ...

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IS IT MONEY, or the milk of human kindness that makes the world go ’round? Trick question: Information technology (IT) makes the world go ’round. And successful IT requires smart people who have a high degree ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CompTIA Linux+

There is no one Linux — the open-source nature of Linux has led creative minds to devise more than 600 unique distributions, or distros — so it's a little disingenuous to talk about Linux in terms of ...

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Certification Survey Extra: Test, fail ... repeat?

Depending on who you ask, storied inventor Thomas Edison tested a thousand, or thousands, or possibly even 10,000 different designs for an electric light bulb before discovering something he could ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Information security is a big job, and it's getting bigger — especially for anyone who is responsible ...

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Salary Survey Extra: How many certified IT professionals have academic degrees?

There are 12 canonical labors in the legend of Hercules, the Greek mythological hero whose name has become an adjective ("Herculean") used to describe nigh-impossible undertakings. Hercules ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISC2 SSCP

The term "baked in" is often used with reference to information security principles, processes, and best practices.When a company it preparing to put ...

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Certification Survey Extra: Evaluating computer technician certification study materials

There have been many, many movies and television shows where a character is visited by their ..

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CompTIA CASP+

Like in that one song by the Beatles, the Deep Focus series is saying hello and goodbye to this week's featured certification at the same time. This is the first time that we've ...

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Salary Survey Extra: The most effective way to prepare for a career in IT

Several centuries before Robert Frost debated which path to follow at a forest crossing, the Scottish folk song "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" envisioned a similar dilemma. A romantic ballad, "Bonnie Banks" ...

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