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22 Apr 2020

Further Your Education Without Spending The Money

From the first steps of entering a new career field to mid-life decision making for your career, there is always an open door for you to further your education. Sometimes, furthering your education may not be in the field of your original studies and here’s why. 
Start your IT career

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16 Apr 2020

How To Start Your Career In IT-Part 2

In our previous blog post on starting your career in IT we discussed answers to common questions facing those seeking a career in IT. In this part of the series, we wanted to add to the suggestions, and give you an even bigger leg up on the competition.
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15 Apr 2020

How To Start Your Career In IT-Part 1

You want to get a job in the Information Technology (IT) sector, but you don’t know where to begin. What kind of course can you take to cover all the learning you’ll need?
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27 Aug 2019

Press Release: Brazil IT Giant RNP Partners with US-based Ascend Education

One of Brazil’s largest information technology organizations, National Network for Research and Instruction (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisas - RNP), cements partnership with leading online training provider, Ascend Education of Provo, UT.
MindTheGap

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16 Aug 2019

Who should take responsibility for the cybersecurity skills gap?

We know there is a major skills gap in the cybersecurity industry. Ever-growing cyber threats are increasing the demand of cyber talent, but there aren't enough people with the skills to fill these positions. Who is responsible for filling this gap?
Partner summit

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9 Aug 2019

CompTIA Partner Summit – Closing the workforce gaps

The IT training landscape is always changing. During the CompTIA Partner Summit earlier this week, attendees were introduced to new technologies and data that have and will continue to influence IT training.
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7 Aug 2019

CompTIA Partner Summit 2019

CompTIA is preparing the IT industry for transformation of tech talent to fill the IT skills gap. The CompTIA Partner Summit is an event for CompTIA partners such as academic educators, commercial trainers, government agencies, corporate learning leaders and instructors. The event provides partners with the opportunity to learn new skills, engage in face-to-face communications and build new contacts with other CompTIA partners. The main goal is to drive businesses and the IT workforce forward.
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18 Jun 2019

NSA + CISA warn Microsoft users to update and patch devices

A few weeks ago, the NSA published an advisory urging Microsoft Windows admins and users to patch and update systems because of a growing threat.
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10 Jun 2019

The importance of early cybersecurity training – Part 2

In our previous post, we talked about why there is a need for more cybersecurity professionals, and we mentioned that there are cybersecurity camps for teenagers. These camps are helping younger audiences get involved in cybersecurity.
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23 Apr 2019

The importance of early cybersecurity training – Part 1

As we all know, the cybersecurity threat landscape is changing on a daily basis. The need for finding highly trained individuals trained in this area is quite high, but given this huge demand, there is actually a severe shortage of workers in the cybersecurity industry. 
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12 Apr 2019

How to become a cybersecurity consultant

The most common job title that is also very closely tied to the cybersecurity consultant is the information security consultant.  There are other, not as commonly used job titles which still refer to being a cybersecurity consultant:
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9 Apr 2019

VMware reinventing itself

NetworkWorld posted an article about VMware continuing to reinvent itself.  Neal Weinberg writes about the dilemmas VMware is facing and what it is doing to face those dilemmas head on.