CompTIA Blog

Industry trends have driven more and more healthcare-related data online and hackers have realized that protected health information (PHI) can be more valuable than credit card information for purposes ranging from identity theft to blackmail. The sheer amount of data taken is staggering. But CompTIA’s Healthcare IT Technician (HIT) certification is the cure.

For Andrew Donga, network engineer at NGS, IT is a perfect career match. And he stumbled upon it by accident while serving in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2012. When he left the service, he found that while he had learned a lot, he had only scratched the surface of networked communications. That’s where CompTIA certifications and New Horizons came in.

It has been two years since Darcy Pelosse took his first dive into the IT channel, and in that relatively short period of time he has learned a tremendous amount. But one of the most important lessons he has learned is that understanding how computers and networks work is not just for network administrators, programmers and others on the applied side of the IT field. In IT sales, to truly understand what a client needs, you have to know the basics of how the technology functions.

The future of the UK channel is being shaped by the community today.

Survey says: those embracing the cloud and other revolutionary channel innovations are seeing the light.

With training becoming more digital, a batch of new elements with increased engagement and effectiveness are making themselves known.

IT security attacks directed at local governments are increasing. With millions of personal records at stake, not to mention the nation’s overall security at risk, the cost of these attacks can become astronomical. Not only do many lose money when hackers steal personal information, the loss of citizen trust may be among the most challenging to recover.