Debra B. McCraw's Posts

Earning your IT certification is just the first step. Keeping your certification current with continuing education can help you keep your career in motion and prevent it from stagnating.

On November 1, Chris Hodson of Zscaler joined CompTIA's Seth Robinson and James Stanger for a discussion on risk management, the evolution of cyberattacks and how to formulate an effective management strategy.

Read an excerpt from the latest issue of CompTIAWorld magazine about how CompTIA certifications help military personnel and veterans get ahead in their careers.

Did you know that businesses experience ransomware attacks once every 40 seconds? Do you have what it takes to defend against them? Follow these four steps to get a cybersecurity job and build your cybersecurity career.

Cybersecurity has become a household word, but while we hear about data breaches and phishing scams on a daily basis, what does it all mean to your organization?

Wondering if a career in IT is right for you? It’s certainly a lucrative and fast-growing field. But what’s it really like to work in IT? You may be surprised by some of these facts about working in IT.

Cybersecurity wove its way through many of the 2017 ChannelCon sessions, whether implicitly or not, and three Track4Techs sessions related to the cloud were no exception.

Many sessions at ChannelCon 2017 focused on cybersecurity – identifying, analyzing, preventing and defending against attacks. Two Tools of the Trade sessions put on by CompTIA staff offered insight into the importance of cybersecurity in IoT, the cloud or any network.

The help desk role has become more sophisticated, and today's help desk workers need to serve as the first line of cybersecurity defense.

Linux powers bullet trains, supercomputers, submarines, Hollywood films and even the New York Stock Exchange. Staff from major tech companies like Intel, IBM, HP and Google as well as startups help to improve upon the Linux code. Whether you call them useless or interesting, here are five fun facts about the open-source software.