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Enhance Your Business Skills: Get 1:1 Time with an Industry Genius
February 10th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
When it comes to analyzing your team’s sales compensation plans, or figuring out where your latest marketing campaign went awry, or what new security tools could help you protect your clients, wouldn’t it be great to ask a genius? CompTIA members will get that chance again March 14-15 at CompTIA’s - Read More
 
CompTIA Certifications: The Antidote to Imposter Syndrome
February 10th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Cybersecurity professionals are in high demand. There are more than 700,000 job openings for cybersecurity positions in the United States alone. When an IT pro earns the necessary experience, skills and certifications to specialize in cybersecurity, it benefits the entire IT industry.Vina Ta, - Read More
 
'CompTIA Helped Me Grow My Business and Avoid Mistakes'
February 9th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
CompTIA members work with us—and each other—to build the resources and tools that demonstrate how innovative technologies help businesses be more efficient, productive and profitable. Why do they do it? We’re going to let them explain.In this video, Chris Ward, managing director of Vermont - Read More
 
Get Started With the Principle of Least Privilege
February 8th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
The principle of least privilege is a basic cybersecurity tenet. The idea is to provide as little access to a resource as possible while still allowing a successful transaction. Such a transaction might be accessing a file, managing a service, administering a system like Active Directory, running - Read More
 
The Metaverse Is Now: AR/VR Use Cases
February 7th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
In a previous blog, we demonstrated why the timing is right for the metaverse. Now, let’s explore three real-life use cases where virtual reality (VR) training is already happening today. There are some common threads across these educational use cases, but there’s also a great deal of the “art of - Read More
 
Top IT Skills in Demand in 2023
February 7th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
IT pros must actively acquire new skills to keep up with evolving technology. These in-demand skills will keep you competitive and functioning well in your IT career, regardless of what the future holds. 23 IT Skills to Learn in 2023 As an IT professional, this is a time for you to level up your - Read More
 
Why an IT Curriculum Is Essential for All Academic Institutions
February 6th, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Being categorized as a technology company used to be relatively straight forward. Companies that produced hardware, created software or were in the business of fixing said hardware or software, were tech companies. As technology has become woven into the fabric of all organizations, those lines - Read More
 
Your Vim Tutorial: Create, Edit and Save Files
February 3rd, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
The vi editor (pronounced vee-eye) is a common tool on Unix-based systems. The modern version is vi-Improved or Vim (pronounced "vim"). This tutorial covers how to get started using this powerful and standard text editor.For those new to command-line environments, Vim can be a bit terrifying. It's - Read More
 
5 Ethical Issues in Technology to Watch for in 2023
February 3rd, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Ethics certainly creates a buzz in the business world. Ethical issues such as how we treat others, use information, engage with employees, manage resources, approach sustainability, and impact the world around us all affect how we view companies. In fact, the inappropriate treatment of people and - Read More
 
10 Things You Don’t Want to Miss at CCF 2023
February 2nd, 2023 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
If you’ve ever been part of a good brainstorm session, you understand what it feels like when the group knows they’re on to something. The energy levels increase, the chatter gets louder and innovative ideas are born. It’s a great feeling and it’s part of what makes the CompTIA Communities & - Read More
 

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