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What's the best training?

Greatly appreciate everyone's advice on certs and their experience with their usefulness (or not). I've been in the field for many years and have only taken cert training/exams when a company will pay for them. I find they're useful when looking for different employment (e.g., advancement, change of responsibilities), but not much else beyond that. Although, as an architect who's constantly having the "why do I need to do this" type of arguments with leadership and non-security architects all the time, there is some value in being able to pull the "because this is what it says in the material for this cert that I have" card from time to time.

I want to point out that my OP mentioned that I "would really like to diversify my skill set" and "am looking for a mix of great training and ideally would love to add a cert or more to my resume." The main goal is to identify good training; cert would be secondary (but nice to have if possible).

Thanks all!

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I'm trying to access the On Demand Lessons but I can't access the video. I kept on having the error "Login Failed. Please try again.".
I was able to access session 6 a few hour ago. Now I can't get access.
Am I the only one having trouble?
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Thank you so much, Stephane, for the voucher, and thank you to our instructor for the course and all the support.
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What's the best training?

I concur. I earned over 60 different certifications, mostly paid for by employers, because I thought it would help me in two ways:

1. It would mean more certification exam courses I could teach. It turns out that some of them had zero demand for training.
2. They would add to my overall body of knowledge. Honestly, I had the knowledge even without the certification for many of them.

Figure out what you want to do and which certs will get you closer to that goal. All the rest are just distractions.

--signed "a guy with 17 different CompTIA certifications and 10 stackable CompTIA certifications"
Exactly correct! I spend SO MANY YEARS when I first got into IT in 2007 playing certification Pac-Man only to realize that it was absolutely a waste of my time. I'm horrified how many VMware Certifications I focused on and the platform is mostly dead now.

CySA+

Hi Folks, I will post updates on the voucher distribution in this thread. We did make a few changes in effort to try and speed up the distribution. I will post as soon as I hear a date that the emails will go out with the vouchers.
Thanks 🙏🏻
This has been on mind as a curiosity as well.

What's the best training?

Shea is sooo right here. Before picking up a new certification, you should consider how and when you'll need to recertify to maintain it.
I concur. I earned over 60 different certifications, mostly paid for by employers, because I thought it would help me in two ways:

1. It would mean more certification exam courses I could teach. It turns out that some of them had zero demand for training.
2. They would add to my overall body of knowledge. Honestly, I had the knowledge even without the certification for many of them.

Figure out what you want to do and which certs will get you closer to that goal. All the rest are just distractions.

--signed "a guy with 17 different CompTIA certifications and 10 stackable CompTIA certifications"
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What's the best training?

Unless your going to get paid for it. I wouldn't recommend doing certifications "just because". If there is a company hiring a certain skill or your doing consulting and their required for a certain job. Ok, but just getting certs for the sake of it. It's a waste of money and time...time being the most important.
Shea is sooo right here. Before picking up a new certification, you should consider how and when you'll need to recertify to maintain it.

What's the best training?

We can always go off the rails and start doing Azure stuff...

(that's what I'm doing anyway...LOL)

/r
Dude, fantastic signature! I grew up reading SH, and that is one of the main things I attribute most to wanting to specialize in this industry when I heard it was a thing.

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