James Stanger's Posts

Employers and recruiters value IT certifications, but do you know why? CompTIA's James Stanger presents research findings that explain why certifications are important to your career.

RSA 2017, held February 13 – 17 in San Francisco, covered everything from ransomware to DDoS attacks to email phishing, making us wonder — is it 2017 or 2007?

CompTIA Senior Director, Product Development, Skills Certification James Stanger shares his thoughts on network uptime.

Project+ is designed for any individual who wants to validate their experience. It doesn’t just focus on how an IT worker creates a project. Project+ validates industry-standard skills for any project manager.

It’s time to get past the zero-sum game mode of thinking with regards to privacy and security, where one or the other wins out. But to do that, we’ve got to learn more about the basic principles of privacy and security and how they work together. That’s why CompTIA is conducting a webinar called Security, Privacy and You: A Report on Today’s Industry Best Practices on April 20 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.

Doing business these days can mean living in a world of near-constant interruptions – little is routine. This challenges traditional project management, and makes managing your current focus much more important, as is knowing how to pause and resume projects or manage that micromanaging CEO. Project management isn’t dead, but it’s changing, and CompTIA is keeping pace with it.

Read about how the networking skills gap was a running theme of CompTIA’s James Stanger’s recent tour of Asia, and how the association is acting to help.

The world needs more IT professionals, specifically those with non-traditional IT skills, hybrid IT skills, adaptive IT skills, commodified data analytics ability and simple creativity. These are the skills to watch this year… and beyond.

Security professionals are great at borrowing terms from other industries. One they haven’t hit on, which could be the most useful, productive act of linguistic theft yet, comes from American football, by way of oncology.

Behind all of the information and acronyms we use every day, we are all looking for a compelling, clear narrative. The common theme that ties together this alphabet soup is certification. It helps set the narrative in motion.