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NCL Fall 2021 Season Starting Soon
- National Cyber League (NCL)
- 2 Replies
It is not too late for your students to get involved with the fall 2021 competition! Open to U.S. high school & college students, the competition consists of a series of challenges that allow students to demonstrate their ability to identify hackers from forensic data, pentest and audit vulnerable websites, recover from ransomware attacks, and more.
Oct. 22 -Oct. 24 : Individual Game
Nov. 5 - Nov. 7 : Team Game (For Team Game, can participate as a Team of 1, or up to 7 members)
Check out and share the student information flyer with your students!
Oct. 22 -Oct. 24 : Individual Game
Nov. 5 - Nov. 7 : Team Game (For Team Game, can participate as a Team of 1, or up to 7 members)
CIN instructors, CompTIA and NCL have partnered for you to register your teams with a special discount! Be sure to register your teams by September 30, 2021! https://nationalcyberleague.org/comptia-advantage
Check out and share the student information flyer with your students!
Instructor Toolbox - CertMaster Solutions
- CompTIA Webinars
- 9 Replies
Yes! You asked for it and we have a session focused on CertMaster Solutions! Join us for an in-depth look at incorporating CompTIA CertMaster Solutions in your training program. CompTIA’s Jordan Wehrle and his Sales Support team will walk through best practices and tips-and-tricks for successfully using CertMaster tools. We will discuss the various tasks performed by organization's administrators and instructors.
But this is an interactive session! Do you have a specific question or do you want to see how to perform a specific task in the platform? Reply to this thread and let us know. Jordan and his team will do their best to incorporate the questions and request in their session. Of course you can ask questions during the session as always, but now you get a jump start to make sure your questions and concerns get addressed.
What: 2-hour session webinar
When: Thursday, Sept. 29, 2021
Where: ON24
Registration (Be sure to select all of the sessions)
But this is an interactive session! Do you have a specific question or do you want to see how to perform a specific task in the platform? Reply to this thread and let us know. Jordan and his team will do their best to incorporate the questions and request in their session. Of course you can ask questions during the session as always, but now you get a jump start to make sure your questions and concerns get addressed.
What: 2-hour session webinar
When: Thursday, Sept. 29, 2021
Where: ON24
Registration (Be sure to select all of the sessions)
Network+
- By Sivanesan
- CompTIA Network+
- 5 Replies
Really looking forward for the n10-008.
Excited
I took the 1st network+ exam 2010. The certificate is GFL.
If i take the new exam will it effect my old certificate?
Thank you
@Stephen Schneiter
Excited
I took the 1st network+ exam 2010. The certificate is GFL.
If i take the new exam will it effect my old certificate?
Thank you
@Stephen Schneiter
But is there a real labor shortage?
- By Rick Butler
- CompTIA CySA+
- 7 Replies
So I was reading a post on Reddit (here) and it sort of struck a cord with me. I won't repeat the post here - you get to go read it for yourself.
But at the risk of spoiler alert, the author's basic premise is that business leaders are simply making these statements:
We all know that cybersecurity is the new sexy. It's the bright shiny buzz word surrounded by pictures of people in business attire, in darkened data centers, analyzing the content displayed on a couple of 27" displays with other pictures of some person in a hoodie and Guy Fawkes mask displayed as "the enemy". Little do these star-struck candidates know that if they actually get into a cyber role within five years after graduation (despite what some admissions rep may say), it's going to be filled with menial tasks like filling out hundreds of pages of documentation for compliance and insurance sake, answering tickets for why the password reset tool isn't working, and maybe pouring over the outputs correlated by a SIEM that shows little more than background noise. But hey, sexy things sell, so we have students (which is good for us...but...).
And as a side rant, just yesterday, US President Biden had some kind of conference with cyber leaders where the output seemed to be (at least from just reading the headlines) was, "Hey NIST, we need a new Framework". Why? What's wrong with the old framework? Seems it was just fine, but since we're still seeing cyber attacks (T-Mobile anyone), somehow a new framework would help tamp down all these new cyber threats.
I didn't think so, either.
I think 3_toad_Grizzly has a point. I personally don't see a real cyber shortage. I see a "care" shortage. I still see business leaders out there that don't care about cyber until it bites them in the posterior region and threatens to sap all their corporate profits that they reluctantly start hiring real cyber analysts into their organizations, rather than just the casual relationship with an MSP to solve a specific problem or, more likely, overcome a compliance/insurance hurdle.
Anyway, it seems CIN is a bit quiet this week, so I figure, time to get a good discussion going and earn a few more achievements and XP. Come one, come all...it's a good old fashioned RickRant!
/r
But at the risk of spoiler alert, the author's basic premise is that business leaders are simply making these statements:
- Stop putting all this security stuff in place that makes it harder and harder for me to do business
- Make security more friendly to my budget and we'll talk about it.
- ...oh but make sure to keep our collective butts out of hot water and get us compliant.
We all know that cybersecurity is the new sexy. It's the bright shiny buzz word surrounded by pictures of people in business attire, in darkened data centers, analyzing the content displayed on a couple of 27" displays with other pictures of some person in a hoodie and Guy Fawkes mask displayed as "the enemy". Little do these star-struck candidates know that if they actually get into a cyber role within five years after graduation (despite what some admissions rep may say), it's going to be filled with menial tasks like filling out hundreds of pages of documentation for compliance and insurance sake, answering tickets for why the password reset tool isn't working, and maybe pouring over the outputs correlated by a SIEM that shows little more than background noise. But hey, sexy things sell, so we have students (which is good for us...but...).
And as a side rant, just yesterday, US President Biden had some kind of conference with cyber leaders where the output seemed to be (at least from just reading the headlines) was, "Hey NIST, we need a new Framework". Why? What's wrong with the old framework? Seems it was just fine, but since we're still seeing cyber attacks (T-Mobile anyone), somehow a new framework would help tamp down all these new cyber threats.
I didn't think so, either.
I think 3_toad_Grizzly has a point. I personally don't see a real cyber shortage. I see a "care" shortage. I still see business leaders out there that don't care about cyber until it bites them in the posterior region and threatens to sap all their corporate profits that they reluctantly start hiring real cyber analysts into their organizations, rather than just the casual relationship with an MSP to solve a specific problem or, more likely, overcome a compliance/insurance hurdle.
Anyway, it seems CIN is a bit quiet this week, so I figure, time to get a good discussion going and earn a few more achievements and XP. Come one, come all...it's a good old fashioned RickRant!
/r