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In this follow-up piece to my training session at ChannelCon, I’m going to lay out the various angles that service providers attempt to use as wedges with their customer base as well as the questions that end users need to respond with when they hear this type of rhetoric.

Hurricane Michael strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane over the weekend and looks to hit the Gulf Coast this week. It will likely make landfall on the northeast Florida coastline as a Category 3 storm by midweek. Run down this thorough list of ways to prepare and stay safe.

For the September Office Hours with James, CompTIA Chief Technology Evangelist Dr. James Stanger will discuss elements of the perimeter-less perimeter, including software-defined networking (SDN) and the loose concept of the software-defined perimeter (SDP).

The Trump Administration’s escalating trade war with China is hurting the information technology sector, the American consumer, and the U.S. economy. As the leading voice of the information technology industry, the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), filed comments with the U.S. Trade Representative asking that a number of important products be removed from the latest list of U.S. products potentially affected by new tariffs.

To help you achieve your learning and certification goals, CompTIA now has an official video training provider: ITProTV.

Is your IT support staff a target for phishing attacks? Tech support experts talked about what’s keeping them busy during a panel at ChannelCon 2018.

CompTIA’s Industry Advisory Councils convened recently with a stated goal – determining best practices for selling emerging technologies, including routes to market in the drone space and smart cities.

Many IT jobs demand Linux skills, so there has never been a better time to acquire and validate Linux skills than right now. CompTIA has taken a hard look at the current version of CompTIA Linux+ and made the changes necessary to modernize the exam for today’s times.

The newly launched CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ (FC0-U61) provides the basic IT knowledge and skills everyone needs, whether they are high school students who need basic IT skills, college students or career changers just starting an IT program, or anyone looking to enhance their basic technical skills.

Responding to a data breach -- like Facebook's just-announced hack of 50 million users -- is as risky as the breach itself, and this is an opportunity to change your approach to IT security, protecting yourself and your customers in the process. Find out how.

The channel is changing, just like every other industry and job in the world. But if we take steps to redefine what it means in this new world order, then it won’t just survive but thrive – and we’ll truly advance the business of technology. Learn how.

Nathan Archer, chair of the Advancing Diversity In Technology Community, takes time to define the terms of diversity and inclusiveness and lay out how companies can engage with them.

Your experience in networking and IT infrastructure gives you certain transferable skills that match those required for cybersecurity job roles including cybersecurity specialist, cybersecurity analyst, penetration tester and cybersecurity engineer.

AR, VR and what’s now being called XR stand to make our worlds newly immersive. Read about how and learn how you can get involved now.

Do you love your job and look forward to going to work every day? Or are you ready for a change? If the latter is true, you may be ready to blaze a path to a new career.