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My biggest win was when I asked my class to turn their books to the table on page 404 and several of them said "We can't find that page." It basically meant that my tech humor was rubbing off on them, and that they're ready for the real world as a result...

Not everything you read on the Internet is accurate, especially when it pertains to very old stuff from the 90s 🤷‍♂️ In fact, for those of us who remember the writing the first CompTIA A+ exams, for the first 3 years you actually had a choice of which OS exam to write in addition to the...

A+ was always 2 exams, including the very first version in 1993: One tested hardware concepts, and one tested operating system installation. As hardware became easier to support (no manual setting of IRQs on sound cards, yay!), A+ eventually evolved into a general "intro to IT" certification...

Insufficient caffeination should also be added to that list.

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If you ask 5 different people what their favourite Cybersecurity certifications are, you'll get 5 different answers. It is what it is...

Merry C:\hristmas (the PC term for Christmas)! I enjoy spending Christmas day mingling with family and friends I don't see often. And, of course, the movie that must be played every year is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

There is no official pronunciation of SIEM. That being said, English favors dictation where the second vowel is emphasized (i.e., SEEM, not SIM), which is likely why most pronounce it that way. But more importantly, this pronunciation avoids confusion with SIM (Security Information Management)...

I usually teach programming languages using heavy metal. It works well...

My view mirrors that of Gilfoyle from HBO's Silicon Valley: https://triosdevelopers.com/~jason.eckert/stuff/chatbot.mp4

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To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: "No."

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With AI, we're just starting to tip into the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner Hype Cycle, so I wouldn't be surprised if it never sees market as a certification. There just isn't the content to support it. And in 5 years when ML features make their way into everyday software products, AI...

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Both CVEs and CWEs will show up on the results of any vulnerability assessment (e.g., from OpenVAS, Nessus, etc.), so like Brian, I cover them in any security class that covers how to perform, analyze, and create action reports using these programs. However, CVEs match known vulnerabilities...

In practice, however, those pillars are slightly different: 1) Compliance audits 2) Budget meetings 3) Blaming breaches on interns

Pro tip: If you're worried about the security implications of accessing resources on the dark web, just task your students with getting those resources for you as "an assignment" :cool:

I'm somewhat disappointed that the title of the announcement wasn't "CompTIA rebrands as CompT-AI, raises $1B from H.I.G. Capital and Thoma Bravo" :cool: