Jill Burroughs Posts

Ever wonder how CompTIA comes up with content for its global certification exams? More to the point, ever think you may have what it takes to be a part of the process? If your answer to either of the above is a “yes” or even “hmmm,” then you’re in luck as we continue to advance our industry-leading certifications next month. CompTIA relies on industry experts, known as Subject Matter Experts (known in the acronym-happy world as a “SME” sounded out as the not-actual-word “smee”), to provide ...

Every industry has its acronyms – those abbreviations that people who are waist deep in the trenches throw around with the assumption that everyone understands.  The certification industry is no different.  When I started in this business many years ago, I remember people throwing around letters and that I had no idea what anyone was talking about.  Fast forward several years and now I am one of those people happily swimming in alphabet soup. Recently I said to an IT Security professional, “Do y ...