Matthew Stern's Posts

When it comes to connected devices used within the home or office, what was science fiction a decade ago is now here. Learn about the Internet of Things; its potential, the challenges to adoption it faces and what it may mean for your career.

Andrew Donga served in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2012. When he left the service, he found that while he had learned a lot, he had only scratched the surface of networked communications. That’s where CompTIA certifications and New Horizons came in.

One of the most important lessons Darcy Pelosse has learned is that understanding how computers and networks work is not just for network administrators, programmers and others on the applied side of the IT field. In IT sales, to truly understand what a client needs, you have to know the basics of how the technology functions.

While there has been no out-and-out declaration of cyber-war by one state against another, there has nevertheless been a proliferation of hacking cases targeting both state and corporate enterprises suspected to have been executed by nation-state actors. The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner certification can provide a first line of defense.

When Latvian IT Cluster was challenged with tightening the connection between Latvia’s working IT professionals and its aspiring talent in schools, CompTIA had the solution.

Andrew Gordon founded the Gomex Technology Institute in Jamaica in 2009 and in the six years since has guided students of all ages to certification success. Learn about Gordon, Gomex and some of the students he and the school have brought to a higher calling – IT – through CompTIA certification.

In the midst of the recent recession, Adrian Genesir stepped into a faculty mentor role at Western Governors University and started helping students differentiate themselves -- partially through CompTIA certifications.

Sana’a Qaiser had only been in Washington, D.C., for a week on her first visit to the U.S. and she had already begun to start to feel at home. A rising senior at Kuwait’s Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), where she studies information systems, she took advantage of the school’s summer semester abroad and attended classes at George Washington University, while availing herself of the myriad exciting new cultural experiences a major U.S. city has to offer.

Even if a tech has worked for more than a decade as an IT professional, without a certification, recruitment specialist Dave Atherton can’t put them on the job.

A security breach in this constantly connected world can mean anything from being inconvenienced to being extorted — and for businesses that don’t properly secure their networks it can mean massive losses in profits and time. At a time when it’s harder than ever to find highly skilled IT security staff, CompTIA’s 11th Annual Information Security Trends study shows data breaches cropping up with growing frequency, and recovery taking longer than ever before.