Businesses today understand the need for global operations – maintaining staff, offices, production facilities, datacenters and more not only in their home country, but throughout the world in key markets. Both United States-based companies and multi-national corporations have expanded their efforts beyond conventional markets – particularly in countries like China, India, Russia, and Brazil which have seen strong economic develop and are regarded as the top emerging markets.
Social Engineering attacks are carried out by way of human interaction in order to obtain confidential information about an organization or an individual. Unlike many viruses that infiltrate a computer system or electronic device, this kind of attack can only be successful if the victim interacts with the malicious software or the attacker...
With the generation of massive data volumes, it is understandable that the field of security is among the fastest developing fields within the IT area. An appropriate type of IT certification, the CompTIA Security + Certification, is offered to enable professionals competent in data security to obtain relevant certification proof. The certification is a vendor neutral certification.
In late 2008 CompTIA released an updated Security+ exam. Followed were updates to A+ and Network+ in early 2009. IT professionals who are encouraged or required by their employers to remain current on their certifications have had two options: They can take the new version of the exam, or they can take the CompTIA bridge exam, which covers the new objectives...
Certification Magazine's annual salary survey reports promising data indicating increases in both salary and job promotion for holders of various CompTIA certifications.
