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If you are using CertMaster you should report the issue via the form in the Labs Help menu. My experience (east coast US) is that the CertMaster Labs support staff is very responsive.

Over several months in 2024 I will be conducting a series of polls of the CompTIA Instructor Network (CIN) Community. Participation is completely voluntary and based on the assumption that respondents are Instructors (i.e. members of CIN). My goal in conducting these polls is to compile data...

Over several months in 2024 I will be conducting a series of polls of the CompTIA Instructor Network (CIN) Community. Participation is completely voluntary and based on the assumption that respondents are Instructors (i.e. members of CIN). My goal in conducting these polls is to compile data...

Artificial Intelligence is great but it requires some developed body of knowledge and continual samples to work. In the future I'm sure that an AI based system will analyze and report on my blood samples from yearly physicals. But that system will base it's findings on years of analyses that...

I've always presented managerial controls as those that someone in authority requires that those subjects that are under that authority follow. Managerial controls require that a subject do something because that is the way they were told or ordered to do it. Managerial controls override a...

The IT or Information Technology industry continues to evolve and grow in many interesting ways. One of the most interesting features in the evolution of IT is the evolution defining what information is and how information is captured, stored and accessed. Information is often based on data...

Just an opinion but multiple choice questions (in my experience) generally don't work well in interview settings. Unless the options are yes and no. But note that yes and no questions also don't work well in assessing candidates in an interview setting. If this were a question on a...

Nope. Session keys don't do any encoding. Session keys are used by cryptographic algorithms / ciphers to encode data. The process of taking some plaintext and using a cipher and a key to produce ciphertext is encryption. When this happens in a computer or on a network that data is encoded.

Nope. Encoding implies that the process is reversible and changes the information formatting for some technical reason. One common technical reason when you encode ASCII text into octal or binary for transmission over a network. You encode data written to storage. That data can be easily...

I have a list of Net+ concepts that are covered in Sec+ and have developed notes and videos that I share with students that are not confident with their understandings of those topics. I call these concepts out as being Net+ and tell students if they have questions to let me know so I can...

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Great point Greg. People ask me why I focus on Sec+, CySA+, and CASP+. Why don't I pursue Network+ and Project+ since I worked in those areas in the past. I started curating my certifications back in 2020. Making sure that I can maintain the ones that are important to me and that I enjoy...

Great point Rick!!!!

When I taught in a classroom I always sought out relevant posters and made sure they were in place students would see them entering and exiting the room and near the break room area. Great conversation starter and for reinforcement of concepts. A great source used to be SANS and some of the...

Michael, Sorry to read you are down on CompTIA Support. They are really working hard to try and make the product great. In this instance I believe that the SME may be CompTIA staff and the Security+ Product Manager will probably be looking at this thread. On behalf of all of us CINers thank...

Probably a typo. What would the answer be if an AIPS is a HIPS and a PIDS is a NIDS?

Great thread! I'm going to respond differently. In 2023 ... I taught 12 courses. Security+ and CySA+. That was just under 200 students. My student's 'I passed the exam' response rate was just under 20%. I worked with 6 private training clients. Security+, CySA+, and CISSP. 100% of my...

As cybersecurity professionals we should all understand that attribution - linking malicious activities to subjects or threat actors - is very difficult in that we are often using latent not direct evidence. Recall that latent evidence requires some analysis and interpretation. Direct evidence...

Great query! Here is my response. #1 - Analysis - Objective: Looking at and understanding the opportunity to be addressed or solved. Defining the bounds of the opportunity. The potential inputs and desired outputs. Analysis ends with an opportunity document. That opportunity document...

Security Awareness Training. When utilized successfully, training users has the potential to reduce the overall threat surface of an organization by raising user awareness of both malicious and non-malicious threats.