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I agree that most hiring managers have little to no idea what is needed in a candidate. Often they will ask for irrelevant qualifications, such as a Master's degree or a CISSP for an entry-level role. Or they will ask for a long list of requirements that no person could possibly have, such as...

If you look at job descriptions online, virtually none of them ask for CySA+ or PenTest+ for cybersecurity roles. That is not to say that the certs are without value. You can learn a lot of useful information while preparing for the examinations. But to be honest, most recruiters have never...

The US Government has moved away from requiring degrees and has moved towards "skills-based" hiring. This was an official press release from National Cyber Director Harry Coker, Jr. on April 29, 2024...

The UnixGuy ranks the best and worst Cyber Security certifications. He bases his rankings on several factors, including pricing, type of examination questions, relevance in the job market, practical skills learned, and quality of training. At the bottom, he ranked bootcamps. No one in...

My job is to help people so they can help themselves, not do the work for them.

To save everyone time, here is where you can find the exam objectives for every CompTIA exam. https://www.comptia.org/training/resources/exam-objectives

How can the court rule that a private entity cannot enforce mandatory prerequisites?

Axelos/PeopleCert have more certifications than CompTIA does. https://www.axelos.com/certifications The DoD only requires that students pass the certs for their job classifications. They could not care less if they have the prerequisite knowledge, experience, or certifications. This is a...

I have six different versions of the Security+ exam out of the seven that have been released. While many of the topics carry over from one version to the next, all certifications must evolve with the times, which means we trainers should evolve as well.

I concur with the opinions of my predecessors on this thread. People with less experience who chase higher-level certifications accomplish only two things: 1. Gaining a false sense of security that they know more than they think they do. It is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. They will...

Axelos/Peoplecert requires that candidates get the ITIL 4 Foundations certification before they can take an intermediate certification, so there is precedent to requiring certs to take another cert exam.

That's my concern. That they're more concerned about profit than providing a real value to the learners. It's a huge disservice to allow them to try to skip steps in the learning process because they want to cut corners.

My sincere hope is that the new owners of CompTIA make the prerequisites mandatory. No more skipping over A+ and Network+ so candidates can start with Security+ or CySA+. Make them go through the progression. If someone doesn't have the prerequisite knowledge or experience, they can't sign up...

The only hard ones are the ones you're not prepared for. They can't front-load hard questions because what's hard for one candidate might be easy for another candidate.

Plenty of time for questions and demonstrations. I usually save the labs as homework after class, and then we review the labs as review each morning.

Five 8-hour days. 40 hours total. Do the class in one week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-touch_provisioning https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-zero-touch-provisioning-ZTP https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/junos-install-upgrade/topics/topic-map/zero-touch-provision.html...

I use several. As I said, it's easier to use Kali Linux because they have so many tools already installed. https://www.kali.org/tools/all-tools/

More effective training and awareness programs combined with more stringent compliance audits can definitely help.

If we could eliminate social engineering threats, we could eliminate the vast majority of cybersecurity incidents and breaches.