Cybersecurity’s workforce shortage is well-documented. By 2022, there will be 1.8 million positions open for highly trained candidates with advanced skills capable of moving beyond traditional approaches. The demand for cybersecurity analysts is already strong: The Bureau of Labor Statistics project growth of 18% from 2014 to 2024, making it the fastest growing job roles in the US workforce—not just in technology but across all categories.
The CompTIA CSA+ certification will offer broad-spectrum validation of knowledge and skills required to configure and use cyber-threat detection tools, perform data analysis and interpret the results to identify vulnerabilities, threats and risks to an organization. It certifies knowledge of a data-driven approach to information security.
"The internet of things is not only bringing greatly expanded capability to homes and businesses, it's also opening up potentially billons of new points of vulnerability that need to be secured," said CompTIA president and CEO Todd Thibodeaux. "It's an economic and societal imperative to train and certify hundreds of thousands of IT professionals with the analytical skills they need to address the complexity and diversity of threats as they multiply."
“By placing greater emphasis on data analytics, we get a real-time, holistic view of the behavior of the network, its users and their devices, to identify potential vulnerabilities and strengthen them before an intrusion happens,” added CompTIA’s senior director for products, James Stanger. “Armed with this information, cybersecurity professionals can more precisely identify potential risks and vulnerabilities so that resources can be allocated where they're most needed.”
The new CSA+ certification strengthens CompTIA’s portfolio of security credentials. It bridges the skills gap between CompTIA Security+ and the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) exam to create a vendor-neutral cybersecurity career pathway. CompTIA Security+ is the benchmark for best practices in IT security, covering essential principles for network security and risk management, while CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner certifies critical thinking and judgment across a broad spectrum of security disciplines.
CompTIA CSA+ has received a Certificate of Accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), signifying that it meets ISO/IEC 17024:2012 general requirements for personnel certifications.
Sunday 26 February 2017
Sunday 12 February 2017
Trends in Digital Organizations Offer Opportunities to Partners
A new report released today by CompTIA Technology Analysts Association reveals that IT teams are collaborating more and new ways that digital transformation continues to impact organizations.
While the business trend in recent years has been to move the budget out of it and direct it towards the line of business (LOB) of technological spending, CompTIA report found that IT departments are becoming more strategically important as Learn to work together with the business units to drive the evolution of the business.
"Unfair IT adventures showed business units that there is more of a technology solution than they had initially assumed," said Seth Robinson, director of technology analysis at CompTIA, in a statement. "IT professionals are also changing their behavior, learning more about business goals and objectives so they can help guide strategies and serve as an educational resource on technical issues.
The predominant role of IT is still activation and support, but the study found that 39 percent of companies surveyed use technology to generate business results, and 36 percent say that the role plays a critical role in IT. strategy.
"This represents a radical change from the traditional point of view, where business objectives were driven by business units and technology equipment play a supportive role," Robinson said.
IDC predicts that by the end of 2017, 70% of Global 500 will form dedicated teams focused on digital transformation and innovation. According to CompTIA, this results in a new business model in which a team will balance the operational functions of IT and strategic IT functions.
The report shows that most companies are not ready to enter this new paradigm, with only 24 percent of the business role of employees and 17 percent of executives who express confidence in their readiness levels. This pressure is felt more by the smaller companies with no resources to build specialized equipment. This opens up new opportunities for the channel, Robinson said.
"For the chain, the need to talk to several buyers has never been stronger," he told the VAR individual. "With most end-users forming collaborative approaches across the technology supply, channel companies must meet IT technical concerns and the needs of other departments.
While the business trend in recent years has been to move the budget out of it and direct it towards the line of business (LOB) of technological spending, CompTIA report found that IT departments are becoming more strategically important as Learn to work together with the business units to drive the evolution of the business.
"Unfair IT adventures showed business units that there is more of a technology solution than they had initially assumed," said Seth Robinson, director of technology analysis at CompTIA, in a statement. "IT professionals are also changing their behavior, learning more about business goals and objectives so they can help guide strategies and serve as an educational resource on technical issues.
The predominant role of IT is still activation and support, but the study found that 39 percent of companies surveyed use technology to generate business results, and 36 percent say that the role plays a critical role in IT. strategy.
"This represents a radical change from the traditional point of view, where business objectives were driven by business units and technology equipment play a supportive role," Robinson said.
IDC predicts that by the end of 2017, 70% of Global 500 will form dedicated teams focused on digital transformation and innovation. According to CompTIA, this results in a new business model in which a team will balance the operational functions of IT and strategic IT functions.
The report shows that most companies are not ready to enter this new paradigm, with only 24 percent of the business role of employees and 17 percent of executives who express confidence in their readiness levels. This pressure is felt more by the smaller companies with no resources to build specialized equipment. This opens up new opportunities for the channel, Robinson said.
"For the chain, the need to talk to several buyers has never been stronger," he told the VAR individual. "With most end-users forming collaborative approaches across the technology supply, channel companies must meet IT technical concerns and the needs of other departments.
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