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The CompTIA Security+ certification exam is now available in Portuguese. As Brazil's IT industry grows, the need for skilled cybersecurity professionals is stronger than ever. This new translation will allow more IT professionals to get trained and certified in cybersecurity fundamentals. Study materials in Portuguese are available as well. The second edition of the book Certificação Security+ Da Prática Para o Exame SY0-301 (Security+ Certification Practical For The SY0-301 Exam) is available f ...

To business owners, the companies that help design, implement and support their technology needs may not seem that different. Most of those organizations employ a variety of talented engineers, sales people and other operational team members who ensure their systems are properly assembled and running effectively at all times. To the user, it doesn’t matter if those individuals are supporting their company’s servers, workstations, printers or communication infrastructure; as long as e ...

Last week, I was in our nation’s capital, along with 60 or so other CompTIA staff, members and TECNA partners, taking part in CompTIA’s second annual TechVoice D.C. Fly-In. While I would not consider myself politically savvy, I am politically curious. I have tremendous appreciation and respect for this country’s history and government. I never imagined I would have the opportunity to walk the halls of the Senate and Congressional offices, let alone sit down with policy makers to represent the IT ...

Cyber Information Technology Instructor Chris Rondeau, left, works with a student in the cyber networking lab at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, La. At the advice of its industry advisors, Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, La., rigorously mapped the curricula and structure of its young Cyber Information Technology (CIT) program to CompTIA and other IT certifications. The goal: Give students credentials and experience to succeed in the technology workforce a ...

George Kalfas Systems Engineer, CCC Technologies Incorporated A computer enthusiast and Japanese Anime buff as a teen, George Kalfas debated whether to pursue business or web graphics design in college. But a summer job working as an assistant to his high school's IT director piqued his interest in IT itself as a career. "While the IT director was on vacation, I was in charge of the computer lab," recalls Kalfas, now 23. "I was helping with computer problems, working on laptop check-out ...

This morning we kicked off day two of the TechVoice D.C. Fly-In with a Tech Summit that included exceptional panel members from the private sector and federal government diving into IT workforce, Internet governance and other important issues for the tech entrepreneur.Ernest McDuffe, lead of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, started the morning with discussion of an initiative called NICE, which defines a framework to improve online behavior skills to enable a safer cyberspace ...

We heard from some great folks on a panel talk this morning at the TechVoice Fly-In in Washington, D.C., including Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) who discussed the importance of education and STEM including the introduction of bill called the STEM Education Opportunity Act.We also heard from Brian Forde, senior advisor to the Chief Technology Officer for The White House, who talked about the White House tech summit with the mission to broaden the STEM talent pool.Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) talked about c ...

How many times have you seen toddlers shake their head “no” or simply lock their jaws closed in bitter defiance when offered a new type of food? Of course, it’s a common occurrence in child-rearing, likely attributable to a fear of the unknown or lack of valuable life experience that most of us eventually overcome. Other than those early adopters who give the bell curve its shape, reluctance to try something new is an innate trait that most of us possess. The same principle c ...

We're not moving to the cloud just to move to the cloud. The cloud is a tool to reduce cost and make collaboration easier. Brian Glick, vice president of global information services, Vandegrift Forwarding Company Cloud is becoming a mainstream platform for IT solutions. Are you ready to take advantage of the opportunity for your company and your career? Moving processes and systems to cloud-based solutions requires IT personnel to gain not only new tech expertise, but also savvy critical t ...

Demand for cloud computing-based solutions continues to climb, with Gartner Research predicting that trend to continue for the next several years, taking an even larger share of the total IT market. Gartner expects annual revenue for the Web delivery model to top $207 billion by 2016, as detailed in CompTIA’s Third Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study, which equates to almost 10 percent of overall IT spending. While cloud experts continue to focus on the benefits from mainstreaming Web-based a ...

With CompTIA A+, the foundation is there to know how to troubleshoot and know about all the components. What you study and everything you are taught are things that we use every day. Steven Geha, technical support manager, Dell Need your technicians to become more technical? Want your employees invested in internal career paths? Looking to please your customers and supervisors as well? Dell Support Services in Australia and New Zealand has a single solution for those time-worn workplac ...

Students work through through CCNA 2 curriculum involving basic router and switch configuration at the CompTIA/Cisco Networking Academy classroom/lab at Burnaby South Secondary in Burnaby, BC, Canada. The Computer Networking Technician (CNT) program at Burnaby South Secondary School, located in a Vancouver suburb, is creating student pathways to IT-related jobs and higher education, thanks to great local partnerships, an exceptional instructor and strong district support. For Burnaby South ...

Canada's Information & Communications Technology Council (ICTC), CompTIA, Cisco Canada and other IT groups are campaigning across the nation's provinces and territories to establish the ICTC's "Focus on Information Technology" program in more Canadian high schools and school districts. The Focus on Information Technology (FIT) program is a two-year course designed for 11th and 12th graders that combines training for IT certifications, hands-on lab experience, non-paid work experience, job ...

Here we go. Again. This is not the first dance for immigration and certainly won’t be the last, but maybe, just maybe, we will actually finish a song this time. It was clear after the 2012 election cycle that immigration was going to be a hot issue and our elected officials have come running out of the gate to tackle it. Here is a recap of the last week: On Monday, January 28, a bipartisan group of eight senators introduced an outline for comprehensive immigration reform. The key is that ...

In early 2012, Congress enacted the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, which included a provision that authorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct incentive auctions to maximize the utility and efficiency of the nation’s radio spectrum frequency bands.Consequently, on October 2, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comments on several aspects of an FCC proposed “reverse auction” process aimed at incentivizing television broadcaster ...