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There are more than one million A+ certified IT professionals today. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of technical support specialists is projected to grow 11 percent through 2026, faster than the average for all occupations. As organizations make critical technology investments in progressively complex software and end point devices, more support services will be needed to leverage those investments. More needed services will require more skilled IT professionals. That need along with recognition of A+ as the skills standard for technical support professionals will drive continued growth for A+ certified professionals. Do you still consider the A+ certification the best place to start for someone entering into the IT field? Yes. CompTIA A+ is listed as a required or preferred credential in thousands of job posts found around the world. It provides validation of the skills needed for success in early career technical support roles. With a focus on problem solvin...

This certification is ideal for IT security professionals who are relatively new to the field or have never taken a security certification exam before. It’s also useful if you’re looking to switch to cybersecurity from a related field. It is recommended as the first security certification you should earn, as it deals with the core skills needed for any job in cyber security and can help you to move into an intermediate-level cybersecurity position. Earning the CompTIA Security+ certification can help you land job roles that are in high demand and command a good salary, such as security architect, security engineer, security or systems administrator, security analyst, network administrator, security consultant, and junior IT auditor. Although certification isn’t typically a requirement for these positions, it can provide a career advantage. The U.S. Department of Defense has approved the CompTIA Security+ credential to meet Directive 8140/8570.01-M requirements. The certification also ...

Security in Cloud Computing Expect the cloud to play a larger role in CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) and CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) in 2020. The core technical cybersecurity skills are largely the same (e.g., a firewall is a firewall), but the infrastructure environment will differ. Data is either on site or it’s in the cloud. The main difference will be policy. When storing your data on third-party systems, there must be rules of ownership and agreement about security in the cloud and how you’ll work on the systems. A few years ago, Cynthia Armstrong attended a conference for women in IT. During one of the sessions, the speaker asked how many women worked in the IT field and she saw hands shoot up everywhere. The speaker then asked how many were in management positions and she saw she was just one in a handful. At that moment she realized that she was a minority of a minority of a minority – and she wanted to do more. Armstrong joined the Hampton Roads Women in IT Communication Committee t...

Employees of today’s enterprise have never been more connected, no matter where they roam – with smartphones, tablets and other devices becoming as ubiquitous as laptops and projectors in today’s conference rooms and corporate campuses. More and more companies have embraced the idea of “Bring Your Own Device”, allowing workers to use the equipment of their choosing. Smartphones now manage both business and personal functions, tablets are as common in the living room as the board room, and laptops allowing employees to work in airports, coffee shops, and anywhere they can access in internet. The use of mobile devices, particularly employees bringing their own personal devices and connecting them to enterprise networks, brings great rewards – greater flexibility, more collaboration, better communication, and more access to the data that drives business success. However, mobile devices bring great threats and risks to the enterprise – company data is now not only accessed fro...

If you are just starting out in the world of security, then the CompTIA Security+ Certification is the right choice for you. However, to acquire it, you need to pass the certification exam. The CompTIA Security+ Certification exam is designed to test the knowledge of entry-level IT security professionals. It is a 90-minute exam with 100 questions. The exam covers topics such as: Cryptography Public Key Infrastructure and Access Security Risk Analysis Vulnerability Testing IDS and Forensics Wi-Fi and Remote Access Security Policies There is no experience requirement; however, CompTIA recommends two or more years of security experience. With the CompTIA Security+ Certificate in hand, you may very well earn a salary increase of 20% or more. The overwhelming response from the community was that CompTIA certifications are not only worth it, they "look good on your resume," "give you an edge when applying for jobs," and "are a prerequisite to apply for many jobs...

The Security+ certification can qualify you for systems, network, and security administration as well as in junior IT auditor and penetration tester positions. The latter is newly covered under the SY0-501 examination, as compared to its prior incarnation. Work in the Defense Contracting Industry A Security+ certification can also provide you with opportunities in defense and defense contracting. According to the DoD 8570 Directive, commonly called the Information Assurance (IA) Workforce Improvement Program, all IA professionals who have access to DoD data must obtain an accredited certification. For this reason, hiring companies often look for the Security+ certification in order to ensure compliance. By completing the exam, you can qualify for IA Technical Level II and IA Management Level I positions. Before taking the exam, it’s best to complete certification training and use simulation tools and practice questions to test yourself. One option is the CompTIA CertMaster eLearning p...

The technology Brady helps deploy for clients — and the conversations he has around it — has been changing. Where just a few years ago he might have been assessing an in-house server to see what problems NetScout’s solution could solve, now the conversation is often about clients leveraging – or looking to leverage – the cloud. “The cloud is definitely the biggest difference that I have noticed,” Brady said. “[That’s] where I see a lot of people going.” As things get more complex with the cloud at the enterprise level – just as they are with consumer technology – cybersecurity is becoming an even bigger priority. Already having CASP+, Brady folds cybersecurity into everything he does, but there are still steps he wants to take to hone his cybersecurity focus. Brady and his wife have five children, ranging from toddlers to teenagers. Things are busy in the Brady house, to say the least. However, amid the busy parenting schedule and the full-time job, Brady is now pursuing a master’s de...

Studies show that companies that prioritize more diverse and inclusive workforces elevate the effectiveness of their businesses, the satisfaction of employees and their overall success. It’s a foundation that CompTIA’s Advancing Tech Talent and Diversity community strives to teach. But for many individuals of color, achieving success in the tech industry began with help from elsewhere first—words of wisdom and guidance passed down from parents to children, professors to students, bosses to underlings. Indeed, mentorship has been an important ingredient to the success of many minority CompTIA members. The first step in planning for diversity at home is figuring out who works for you. Look at trends, like whether a particular department has a more homogeneous culture in regard to race, ethnicity, gender, age, veteran or disability status, or if there’s an area with a higher percentage of employees approaching retirement eligibility. Rather than making sure there’s diversity represented ...

The prices vary depending on the country you are in, and whether you are getting a discount through a test prep company or voucher. The standard price in the United States is $211. Click here for prices in other countries. Where do I go to take the exams? Exams are administered at proctored testing facilities. While you can prep for the exams at home, you cannot take the actual certification exams from home. Use this search page to find the Pearson|VUE testing centers closest to you. To schedule an exam, go here: https://certification.comptia.org/testing/schedule-exam What if I don’t pass the first time? The two exams are scored separately, so it is possible that you might pass one exam but not the other. You can re-take individual exams as many times as needed until you get a passing score. (A separate fee applies with each re-take.) Employees of today’s enterprise have never been more connected, no matter where they roam – with smartphones, tablets and other devices becoming as ubiq...

Networking jobs are abundant in the industry. Whether it’s running ethernet cords across a building or connecting 40 workstations, every business needs a network and someone to run it. Networking covers a lot of the more nuanced factors with building and creating a system that allows the sharing of information across large distances. These networks are inherently complex and many things can go wrong during set-up. That’s why CompTIA Network+ offers the training and skills to connect computers and servers together across a building. Network administration can involve installing wire through the ceiling, labeling a switch that has been set-up poorly, and running back and forth to get the internet fixed during a system wide malfunction! When the network breaks down, no one can work, this means a Network professional is often on call. The awesome part about Network jobs is that you have the freedom to build and create a wide range of custom solutions. It takes a creative individual who lo...

Using the institute’s simulation labs, you will also be trained to master the skills tested on the CompTIA A+ Practical Application exam. So, if you’re planning on building your career as a computer support technician, make sure to include the CompTIA A+ Certification in your list of expertise. This certificate will give you much needed leverage in today’s competitive job market, so make sure that you sign up for Ashford Global IT’s five-day CompTIA A+ Certification course. The CompTIA Security+ Certification is one of the most popular security certifications. This certification was launched in 2002, and since its inception, it has become an important credential that is required by different organizations including government agencies and private-sector companies. For instance, Microsoft has long since used this international standard as an alternative choice for their elective exams for MCSE. Identifying personal computer components Identifying the components and functions of oper...

For a quarter of a century, CompTIA has kept the A+ certification relevant by adapting to new developments in the IT industry, and the changing needs of their members. As the first certification to cover the whole IT industry, rather than a single vendor, the exam was rigorous. The original A+ certification was a single exam designed to assess novice IT technicians with at least 500 hours of experience. But despite being difficult, A+ made so much sense as a springboard into the IT profession is quickly becoming the most popular IT certification in the business. Since then, A+ has gone through three major revisions in 2003, 2006, and 2009. Know what type of learner You are: Everbody won’t read in the same manner, everybody has their own style in learning, so find what type of learner you are.keep the notes updated every day or save it in flashcards. Build a Computer or Network: This is very important to have a computer for CompTIA A+ exams And CompTIA Network+ exams. Practice, Practic...

OVH created the anti-DDoS solution precisely to fight against these distributed denial-of-service attacks. With all of our services, we include a migration solution based on a unique technology, which combines three technologies to: analyze data packets quickly in real-time divert your server’s incoming traffic separate non-legitimate requests from others and let legitimate traffic pass through The server is operational. It sends and receives packets normally. A DDoS attack starts in different ways — it may overload the bandwidth, or overwhelm the system resources. You’ve just arrived home after a long work day, so long in fact that night has already set in. You wander a bit through the darkness, turn on the lights, grab two slices of bread, and put them into that old, creaking toaster. It’s nothing fancy, just a quick and dirty snack until you undress, unwind and cook a proper dish. The moment you push down on the button to toast the bread, you hear a loud pop, and all of the light...

You need to prepare and plan to manage a DDoS attack against your systems. You need to monitor, generate alerts, and quickly diagnose a DDoS attack in progress. The next step is shutting down the attack quickly without affecting your users. You can block the IP addresses using your Next-Gen Firewall, or close inbound traffic to the targeted system and failover to a backup. There are other response plans you can implement, make sure to have one. Some CDNs, like Cloudflare, also act as a reverse proxy which can further protect your WordPress site from DDoS attacks. An HTTP Flood attack, for example, is an application layer attack that targets a web server on the target and uses many fast HTTP requests to bring the server down. Think of it as pressing the refresh button in rapid-fire mode on your game controller. That kind of traffic from many thousands of computers at once will quickly drown the webserver. Who should consider using a CDN: Most websites can benefit from integrating a CDN...

The "amplification" part comes in when you understand that many UDP services generate replies that are much larger than the initial request size. For instance, the Domain Name Service (DNS) has a bandwidth amplification factor of 28 to 54 (the reply to a DNS request can be between 28 and 54 times larger than the request). The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has a bandwidth amplification factor of 556. By combining reflection (the server sends reply traffic to a spoofed source address) with amplification (the reply traffic is a lot larger than the initial request), attackers can do a lot of damage to a victim with very little effort on their part. A number of UDP-based applications and services can be used to generate amplification and reflection attacks, including DNS, NTP, Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). It is criminal or illegal to launch a DOS or DDOS attack, but they happen anyway. While the criminal aspect is apparen...

Generally, wheter they are applicative or network, the difference between DoS and DDoS is in the way to distribute the attack. A DoS is distributed from only one starting point, whereas a DDoS implies several computers or servers. A typical DoS (Denial of Service) attack, for instance, would be to send 10 Gb/s from the same IP adress / machine to a targeted server to saturate its network connection of only 1Gb/s. A typical DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack would be to send 1Gb/s from 10 different servers and to block a targeted server using a 1 Gb/s connection. The result is the same, but because of the variety of resources, the attack is a bit more complex to block. Enterprises require proactive DDoS defense services to mitigate the attacks as they emerge. The fact that such attacks were driven by insecure IoT devices, which are trivially easy to identify and exploit, is deeply concerning as it exposes tremendous firepower to even small, unsophisticated groups of attackers...

They have also gotten bigger over the years. In the mid-1990s an attack may have consisted of 150 requests per second – and it would have been enough to bring down many systems. Today they can exceed 1,000 Gbps. This has largely been fueled by the sheer size of modern botnets. In October 2016, internet infrastructure services provider Dyn DNS (Now Oracle DYN) was stuck by a wave of DNS queries from tens of millions IP addresses. That attack, executed through the Mirai botnet, infected reportedly over 100,000 IoT devices, including IP cameras and printers. At its peak, Mirai reached 400,000 bots. Services including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, Spotify, Tumblr, and Twitter were disrupted. In the beginning, attackers built their own botnets by scanning the Internet for vulnerable devices and then compromising them with malware that enabled attackers to remotely control the bots. Sadly, attackers don’t even need to build botnets anymore; they can rent DDoS-for-hire botnets from operators w...