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Addressing the Information Security Skills Gap in Partnership With Academia

The cybersecurity industry is booming — but there aren’t enough skilled workers to go around. “More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years,” stated a Peninsula Press analysis of the data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). (CED Solutions provides the IT CyberSecurity training and Certifications necessary to obtain IT Security jobs.) Faced with an ongoing skills gap in information security, the security industry has become adept [...]

October 12, 2015 By Rich IT News

6 Emerging Cybersecurity Risks You Should Be Aware Of

Last Friday I had the privilege of moderating a panel of experts discussing emerging security risks. Besides me, the panel at the New York Cyber Security Summit included Logan Brown (president of Exodus Intelligence), Joseph Fiorella (senior infosec engineer at Intel Security), Roy Katmor (CEO of Ensilo), Tom Kellerman (chief cybersecurity officer at Trend Micro), Hanan Levin (VP of products at Illusive Networks), and Dr. Bernard Parsons (CEO of Becrypt). Here are six takeaways from the panel; they should provide valuable [...]

October 6, 2015 By Rich CompTIA Training, Internet Security, IT Certifications, IT Jobs, IT News

10 Best IT Certifications For 2016

With successful hacking attacks on many corporate and government systems and networks, CyberSecurity & Security training moves to the front in 2016. With over 1MM IT Security jobs available now as a result, and IT Security salaries rising fast, IT Security is here to stay at the front of IT work. 1. Certified Ethical Hacking/Computer Forensics/Security Analyst/Licensed Penetration Tester. There are two kinds of organizations today, those that know they have been hacked, and those that don’t know they have [...]

October 5, 2015 By Rich Cisco Certifications, CompTIA Training, Internet Security, IT Certifications, IT Jobs, IT News, Microsoft Certifications

15 Million T-Mobile Accounts Information Exposed

A hacker has acquired the records of 15 million T-Mobile customers and people who had applied for credit, the company reported Thursday. The breach occurred at Experian, the vendor that processes T-Mobile’s credit applications, T-Mobile CEO John Legere said at t-mobile.com . (Reduce your risk of exposure through CyberSecurity training and Certification) Experian North America said in a notice that one of its business units was compromised but that its consumer credit bureau was not affected. Experian immediately secured the server [...]

October 2, 2015 By Rich IT News

Microsoft Office 2016 For Windows Has Been Released

Microsoft made massive changes in Office 2016 for Windows but has hidden most of the changes beneath a reassuringly familiar-looking surface. With the new version, the world’s most-powerful and widely used office application suite leaves its online and desktop-based competition even further in the dust, especially in its convenient and deeply integrated collaboration features. As always with Microsoft Office, it’s vastly better than anything else out there, and only a few advanced users will find odd corners of inconvenience [...]

September 24, 2015 By Rich IT News