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Agree 100%. I try to find and encourage students to find mentors in the field already to help students gain expertise. That's how I learned about SOC, by shadowing a couple of SOC staffers. Something that I took away from that experience is developing checklists. I read the boom 'The...

AI and ML were also in the SY0-601 acronym list and mentioned in most of the popular texts.

Yes. My experience mirrors exactly what Greg is saying about tech experience. Same for CISSP. CASP+ is incredibly hard for students who don't have any kind of people or staff management experience. I'd go as far as saying CISSP is almost impossible for those folks. Student screening and...

I try to avoid or make fun of the fact that most folks in cybersecurity hate math and you don't have to do any complex math on the Security+ exam. That said when it comes to crypto I always try to get my students to generate and validate some file checksums. MD5 checksums are relatively easy...

While AI is an incredibly interesting topic the term only shows up in the acronym list for the SY0-701 Security+ course. The related topic of machine learning now also only appears in the acronym list. Neither topic is part of the exam objectives. There are some topics were I mention the...

I appreciate your view but SecurityX is an advanced cybersecurity certification. Cloud+ and a future CloudX are focused on cloud technologies and only cover a small portion of the cybersecurity objectives. Linux+ has that similar small overlaps. I ran into this issue years ago when I held...

Jose is raising excellent points here. Thanks. Even though I work part time for CompTIA I'm not in a position to speak for the program managers or leadership. I will say that I know program manager and leadership work with many external stakeholders like different government and commercial...

@Trevor Chandler Yet another benefit of @Rick Butler being the CINer of the Year. @Stephen Schneiter

Everything that I've heard about CTT+ is that there are no plans to replace it. You may want to look at Microsoft's MCT program. According to their site that may open again next month.

To expand on Trevor's answer about looking at the logs; investigate the routing issue by determining the scope of the problem. Expand on this by using ping and traceroute. Can users connect to some networks (sites) but not others? Statics are often used in two scenarios. #1 when the network is...

Still waiting for my CASP+/SecurityX beta exam score.

Yes. There's a team at CompTIA that do this.

Your statement that CompTIA training is typically conducted over 5 days is incorrect. There are 5 day 'bootcamps' but there are other training providers (including CompTIA) that offer training over 2 or 4 or 8 weeks using CompTIA CertMaster training materials and labs. There are programs in...

First off it was great meeting you in person Mark at the Partner Summit! Thanks for pointing out this great instructor focused presentation. I was a little concerned with ECPI's Instructor John Guise's presentation title but the content was very valuable. John provides real examples of how...

Great question. I hold the CompTIA Cloud Essentials and Cloud+ certifications. I also hold the AWS Cloud Practitioner and Cloud Solution Architect certifications. In my opinion the CompTIA certifications are cloud centric and completely vendor neutral. I took the Cloud Essentials and the AWS...

I had an opportunity to talk with the Cloud+ Product Manager at Partner Summit and learned that the Cloud+ 04 version exam should be launching in preview this month. General availability will follow likely next month (September 2024). At this time the CV0-003 exam and course should retire in Q1...

And did I point out that Black Hills will send these to educators for free?

The folks at Black Hills Information Security are making their fantastic Infosec Survival Guide available for educators at no charge. See this post at LinkedIn for details.

It's important to realize that there is an important 'teachable' moment created by Friday's massive outage. We teach students about frameworks and policies in several of our courses. If organization's utilized those frameworks and adopted and used those policies then Friday's outage would...

Parking your care will still cost $55 per night. Yikes!