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Passed SecAI+ yay

BrianFord
Tanja Jacobsen said:
What a great course to learn. Considered myself quite AI savvy, but this course gave me lots of valuable takeaways. Worth the effort and certainly celebrating earning the Cert!
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Tell us more about those takeaways.

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CIN TTT Series: CySA+ V4

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Stephen Schneiter said:
Join us for the CIN TTT series covering the next release of the CompTIA CySA+ certification. Our guest instructor, @Nick Pierce , will lead us through the eight-session series covering the exam objectives and provide hands on examples as you strengthen your cybersecurity analysis skills. We will discuss how to cover the content with students and suggest various labs to let students gain hands-on experience as they prepare for certification.

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) is the premier certification for cyber professionals tasked with incident detection, prevention, and response through continuous security monitoring. It validates a tech professional's expertise in incident response and vulnerability management processes, emphasizing the critical communication skills necessary for effective security analysis and compliance.

Skills covered in this series:
  • Enhance security operations processes, differentiate threat intelligence and threat hunting, and identify malicious activity using appropriate tools.
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments, prioritize vulnerabilities, and recommend effective mitigation strategies for vulnerability management.
  • Apply attack methodology frameworks, perform incident response, and understand the incident management lifecycle to handle security incidents effectively.
  • Utilize communication best practices to report on vulnerability management and incident response, providing stakeholders with actionable plans and meaningful metrics.
What: CIN TTT Series CySA+ V4
When: June 8 through July 1, 2026, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm CT
Who: Nick Pierce
Where: ON24
Register Here
(Please note, registering will automatically register you for all 8 sessions. You will be able to add each session to your calendar on from the confirmation email.)

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Stephen Schneiter said:
Join us for the CIN TTT series covering the next release of the CompTIA CySA+ certification. Our guest instructor, @Nick Pierce , will lead us through the eight-session series covering the exam objectives and provide hands on examples as you strengthen your cybersecurity analysis skills. We will discuss how to cover the content with students and suggest various labs to let students gain hands-on experience as they prepare for certification.

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) is the premier certification for cyber professionals tasked with incident detection, prevention, and response through continuous security monitoring. It validates a tech professional's expertise in incident response and vulnerability management processes, emphasizing the critical communication skills necessary for effective security analysis and compliance.

Skills covered in this series:
  • Enhance security operations processes, differentiate threat intelligence and threat hunting, and identify malicious activity using appropriate tools.
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments, prioritize vulnerabilities, and recommend effective mitigation strategies for vulnerability management.
  • Apply attack methodology frameworks, perform incident response, and understand the incident management lifecycle to handle security incidents effectively.
  • Utilize communication best practices to report on vulnerability management and incident response, providing stakeholders with actionable plans and meaningful metrics.
What: CIN TTT Series CySA+ V4
When: June 8 through July 1, 2026, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm CT
Who: Nick Pierce
Where: ON24
Register Here
(Please note, registering will automatically register you for all 8 sessions. You will be able to add each session to your calendar on from the confirmation email.)

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Is this forum still alive?

Jill West
Jeff Strain said:
For A+ and N+ content, we are currently using Cisco Network Academy content. It is okay and free. We augment it with some of our own materials. The A+ class is really packed, and they don't have much time to be bored. It is a 3-credit class. I have seen people use this content and do it in 4 or 5 10-hour days for a boot camp, so there should be room for it in a 3-credit, 120-hour-expected course. We tack on AWS Academy Cloud Practitioner content to the A+ course as Cisco Net Academy lacks good cloud content.
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I'm a big fan of AWS Academy, especially their Learner Lab environment. Free resources, free credits.
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Is this forum still alive?

Jeff Strain
Dan.Morrill said:
Hello Everyone,
So I do teach at a couple of colleges, one full-time and one part-time, and both are heavily CompTIA A+, N+, and Sec+. Like all colleges I've seen lately, it's all Cengage and Jill West all the time.
If this forum is still alive and anyone is interested, do you want to compare notes?

The biggest challenges I'm seeing right now are having students do the labs, which can take 20 minutes to an hour (ACI Labs), depending, and in a world of TikTok-induced ability to focus, that might be an issue.

If not, just saying Hi!
Dan
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For A+ and N+ content, we are currently using Cisco Network Academy content. It is okay and free. We augment it with some of our own materials. The A+ class is really packed, and they don't have much time to be bored. It is a 3-credit class. I have seen people use this content and do it in 4 or 5 10-hour days for a boot camp, so there should be room for it in a 3-credit, 120-hour-expected course. We tack on AWS Academy Cloud Practitioner content to the A+ course as Cisco Net Academy lacks good cloud content.

We are building the Security+ Course now. We have a CYSA+ and CEH/Pentest+ aligned courses (Using Ucertify for those, then augment with custom content). For Security+, we are going to use

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Certification Companion​

Hands-on Preparation and Practice Guide -
Authors:
We chose this for a few reasons. The main ones are that it is current, good enough, and our library has purchased it, so students can download the ebook for free.
I am currently working on the in-class custom engagements.
Since alot of us like videos... Here are videos about some of the content providers I have listed above.

RedHat Academy - Login to view embedded media Ucertify - Login to view embedded media AWS Academy - Login to view embedded media
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Is this forum still alive?

Jeff Strain
Shea Bennett said:
Exactly! Someone with focus will eat their TikTok loving lunch while they watch their videos and complain how long the Food Bank line is...smh
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I want to jump in here and say that we, as instructors, are part of the problem. We need to not be boring and know our stuff. Death by PowerPoint or excessive rambling is not helpful.

As much as possible, have the learners doing. If they are doing, then it is hard for them to focus on other things. Learning about firewalls, set them up, and test them (I like to redirect outgoing connections to a different place or block them). Learning about Linux, let's log in and run some commands.

Oh, viruses... Let's write one, get you to download it from the internet, look at your internet downloads from my command-and-control system in front of the class, and then reboot your system, partially to clear off my virus. (I warn the student beforehand what I want to do and let them object if they do no want me to)

At the end of every semester I ask myself a bunch of questions. Two of them are: who did not get an A that I thought they should have, and why was that. Also, who passed the class who shouldn't have, and why? Then I adjust my classes to try and fix those.

If we are relying on labs only in the ebooks, then we are failing our students. Most of those labs do not have them properly log in.

So, we as instructors should be doing more. I have much of my Linux course on YouTube for my students and anyone else. We start day one doing SSH keys and logging in so that they can play. Then we log into a Linux system remotely 95% of the days in class, and all the assessments are hands-on. I use Red Hat Academy for ebooks and labs that they can do outside of class. We do very little with Red Hat Academy in class. The ebook is there to augment the in-class learning and let them do more.

Here is my custom Linux content - Login to view embedded media
I would like to get more of my classes to this level, but the number of courses and my other load make it hard. But I stand by the fact that we, as instructors, are part of the reason our students are bored and disengaged. We, as instructors, can do better.
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Is this forum still alive?

Mark Anthony Germanos
Dan.Morrill said:
Hello Everyone,
So I do teach at a couple of colleges, one full-time and one part-time, and both are heavily CompTIA A+, N+, and Sec+. Like all colleges I've seen lately, it's all Cengage and Jill West all the time.
If this forum is still alive and anyone is interested, do you want to compare notes?

The biggest challenges I'm seeing right now are having students do the labs, which can take 20 minutes to an hour (ACI Labs), depending, and in a world of TikTok-induced ability to focus, that might be an issue.

If not, just saying Hi!
Dan
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Still here and able to share Security+ notes. Funny, I thought Twitter was responsible for the short attention spans 🤪🤪🤪
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Are certification kits no longer complimentary?

Mitch Garvis
BrianFord said:
While certification cards and kits are a thing of the past, people who have earned a CompTIA certification will want to know how to prove that to a prospective employer. An exam score report is not proof that someone earned a certification. Candidates can download and provide an official, secure PDF copy of any individual certification (or all active certifications) directly from their CompTIA (Certmetrics) account. Candidates can also share verifiable digital badges (often through platforms like Acclaim/Credly) that display active status, issue dates, and skills verified.
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You can also create a Transcript Link which you can share.
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Where i can find Instructor resources ?

Red Kohler
If you are working for an accredited Training center, they will generally give you access to the resources. (at least that's how I get my access),
You have to be certified in the class you are teaching first of all.
The training centers that you are representing usually do well with providing you with the resources.
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Where i can find Instructor resources ?

Mitch Garvis
Varun Pathak said:
How do we access instrucor resources now (ppt and book), before it was easy to purchase from comptia store ?
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My understanding is that in order to purchase the instructor material you must be affiliated with a CompTIA partner. If you are having issues you can then go through them. Good luck!
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