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Soha Khamis, the operations and quality assurance manager at New Horizons Dubai, has seen throughout her career how CompTIA sets the standards for Dubai’s IT pros.

Brian Virgil was getting stuck in his attempts to certify. CertMaster took him past that and beyond.

Sean Chen’s early interest in IT centered on a noble goal; gain tech knowledge and share it with others. So once he began acquiring certifications, Sean, with the help of his family, started a non-profit to do just that, and this summer he served as technology commissioner for his high school.

When it comes to connected devices used within the home or office, what was science fiction a decade ago is now here. Learn about the Internet of Things; its potential, the challenges to adoption it faces and what it may mean for your career.

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.

While there has been no out-and-out declaration of cyber-war by one state against another, there has nevertheless been a proliferation of hacking cases targeting both state and corporate enterprises suspected to have been executed by nation-state actors. The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner certification can provide a first line of defense.

When Latvian IT Cluster was challenged with tightening the connection between Latvia’s working IT professionals and its aspiring talent in schools, CompTIA had the solution.

Andrew Gordon founded the Gomex Technology Institute in Jamaica in 2009 and in the six years since has guided students of all ages to certification success. Learn about Gordon, Gomex and some of the students he and the school have brought to a higher calling – IT – through CompTIA certification.