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The problem few seem to address is the preparedness level of technology firms. From cloud and hardware suppliers to the MSPs that manage hundreds of business systems in a region, will they really be able to help others when a disaster occurs if their own operations are dead in the water (literally and figuratively)? As Irma and Harvey illustrated, the risks can be high.

CompTIA’s 2017 EMEA Member and Partner Conference, scheduled 17 and 18 October 2017, features a session that will help you get a great start on the journey to General Data Protection Regulation compliancy. With the May 25 deadline fast approaching, the clock is ticking and there’s not much time to get up to speed here. Don’t miss it!

The other day, I was asked if the IT industry has done a good job at identifying the skills necessary to succeed in cybersecurity. I couldn’t help but think of the difference between hiking up a well-maintained trail and an undocumented one.

Many sessions at ChannelCon 2017 focused on cybersecurity – identifying, analyzing, preventing and defending against attacks. Two Tools of the Trade sessions put on by CompTIA staff offered insight into the importance of cybersecurity in IoT, the cloud or any network.

Who’s buying what you’re selling today? The IT department? The CIO? The small business owner? Find out here.

Few MSPs leverage the full computing power of their own business tools, including the powerful integrations their vendors develop to simplify their operations and their lives. Is time a factor, or is it the failure to understand what value these systems provide IT business owners and their customers?

Xerox’s Gus Yusem, an active, impactful CompTIA community member, passed away late last month surrounded by his family. He’s remembered well, especially for serving as an early champion of print’s role in IT.

Recruiting in IT is fast becoming a lucrative industry via tons of demand for new talent. Top professionals share their secrets.

In July, CompTIA filed comments with the FCC in response to its Restoring Internet Freedom NPRM. As you may know, the FCC released this NPRM in May, and its primary point of focus was a proposal to reclassify broadband internet access service (BIAS) as an information service.

IT service management (ITSM) consists of the activities, processes and policies that businesses and other organizations use for delivering IT services. While many of the best practices are beginning to spread to other departments, IT remains the dominant use case for service management frameworks.

Why complain about low margin cloud sales? Use those platforms as a lead in to higher profit service sales.

At Austin’s Capital Factory last week, CompTIA attended Apple CEO Tim Cook’s announcement that the App Development with Swift curriculum will now be offered at Austin Community College (ACC), one of the nation’s largest higher learning institutions.

The truth is, it's really quite easy to start a business. The hard part is turning an owner into a leader.

Our Linux guru, Jason Eckert, is back to “Talk Tech to Me” about Linux foo. Can your moves stand up when everyone is Linux foo fighting?

While researching other certifications to build his IT career, Leonard Waker realized that he only had a few days to keep his current ones from expiring. CompTIA CertMaster CE let him prove his skills quickly and conveniently without disrupting his busy schedule, and taught him some valuable new IT tricks.