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EC-Council CAST SUMMIT Washington DC 2012 Coming Soon!
Posted by on February 16, 2012
The EC-Council has been making advanced security training classes available for about the past year and their event the CAST Summit Washington DC is coming to the area soon. This event will be held at Advanced Security by Academy of Computer Education in Greenbelt Maryland. Last year’s CAST Summit DC featured some really excellent speakers [...]
CHFI v8 Launch
Posted by on February 9, 2012
We just received word that coming to the area is the highly touted computer forensics training event, the CHFI v8 Launch. The CHFI is the top computer forensics certification on the market these days. More people are getting this forensics cert than any other right now. However, the CHFI had been lagging behind in terms [...]
How Valuable Is Project Management Training To Your Company
Posted by on January 11, 2012
Any good business will have leadership that can keep the company on track. This same concept applies when working on projects. Without good oversight, a project can go totally off course and what was once a good idea could take on a life of its own and become useless to a company. Having a solid [...]
CCNA Online Training is the Trend
Posted by on January 4, 2012
Improve or jumpstart a network administration career by obtaining the Cisco CCNA certification. Networking specialists who hold this certification are frequently sought out by employers. In fact, simply holding this certification can increase a network administrator’s pay by several thousand dollars. The average wage for a network administrator in the United States was $66,310 in [...]
CCENT Online Training Make Sense If You Want To Get In Or Get Ahead
Posted by on December 27, 2011
A Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician certification is proof that you can manage a small network, and it could be enough proof to get you an entry-level job in computer networking or help you advance with your current company into the job you really want. Even better, you can get the CCENT after taking only [...]
ITIL Is Still Plugging Along, Barely…
Posted by on June 28, 2011
When the initial word made its way around about ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure library) the wave caught some momentum quite well. The IT best practices concepts, that were non-technical / more procedure and business related, were already a major hit in the UK and the word was starting to get out here in the USA. [...]
Microsoft Office Specialist – Whats the Deal?
Posted by on June 27, 2011
The Microsoft Office suite is an essential set of tools for almost any business these days. When Microsoft Office training first became popular, Microsoft released a set of certifications for people to achieve, and they named them, the Microsoft Office Specialist. A couple of years after this name was branded, Microsoft decided to change the [...]
DISA Employees Saying Goodbye To Northern Virginia
Posted by on May 13, 2011
The last of the DISA empire that contributed to the Nothern Virginia technology community are all but gone. The agency was since its inception, located in downtown Arlington and is now relocated to Fort Meade in Maryland. DISA employees contributed to the Northern Virginia tech community through participation in Chamber of Commerce events, Tech seminars, [...]
Why CISSP Courses Are Essential to Preparing for the Exam
Posted by on April 20, 2011
IT professionals have the ability to carve many different paths for themselves. They can choose software or hardware, network management or server administration, application development or application security. All of these various fields present their own challenges, but one of the most challenging paths is one of security. Certification is essential in the security industry. [...]
Government Shutdown Shakes Up the Area
Posted by on April 11, 2011
The threat of the Government shutdown is now over (for now) and this is extremely fortunate to many people in the Nothern Virginia area. As discussed many times on this blog, NoVa is such a huge Government and DoD contractor area. The majority of the IT / Tech workforce in the area is a contractor [...]
