The Importance of IT Security

Cyber attacks are unpredictable and can take place at any time and anywhere. We know that we living in a growing networked world, from personal banking to government infrastructure and protecting these networks is no longer optional rather it is a mandate.

In the recent past, we’ve witnessed that cyber attacks have become a frightening new reality, where corporate and government organizations are helpless to stop it. There is no requirement to list down the statistics or polls to calculate the threat. Cyber attacks have become nonstop headline news. The transformation from a perceived threat to actual headlines is taking place!

Any cyber attack, in addition to commercial losses and public relations problems, interference with the operations and extortion; also expose an organization to negligence claims, regulatory action, damaging loss of trust among customers and suppliers, and the inability to meet contractual obligations. So, we must take steps to keep our self-protected from such security threats. uCertify has always emphasized on cybersecurity and various ways to keep yourself away from security threats.

Always keep in mind the various cybersecurity steps like keeping your software updated, keeping a popular antivirus in your system, never clicking on any link coming from the unknown sources, and always keeping yourself and your organization updated with various security threats and ways to get rid of them. By keeping these things in mind, you can keep yourself safe from various cyber threats to much extent. Remember that prevention is the best protection.

uCertify latest release CCDA Course

uCertify has recently released Cisco Certified Design Associate course to provide skills and understanding required for CCDA certification exam. This course provides complete coverage of CCDA exam and includes topics such as network design methodology; network design models; enterprise LAN design; data center design; Internet protocol version 6 design; routing protocol characteristics, RIP, EIGRP, and IS-IS, and much more.

The CCDA exam measures your ability to design networks that meet certain requirements for performance, security, capacity, and scalability. The exam focuses on small to medium-sized networks. A CCDA candidate should understand internetworking technologies, including Cisco’s enterprise network architecture, IPv4 subnets, IPv6 addressing and protocols, routing, switching, WAN technologies, LAN protocols, security, IP telephony, and network management. The new exam adds topics and updates to virtualization, data centers design, IPv6, voice and video design, wireless LANs, WAN technologies, and security.

The Cisco Certified Design Associate course contains exercises, flashcards, quizzes, challenge questions in its chapters. The learners can attempt these while they are learning about that particular topic. This helps them grasp concepts better because they can go over it again right away which improves learning.

So, be a CCDA certification exam expert with uCertify’s Cisco Certified Design Associate course.

Why should you go for CSA+ Certification?

CompTIA released its Cyber Security Analyst (CSA+) certification with exam code CS0-001 in February 2017. The certification emphasizes on revealing cyber-threat mechanism and analysis to identify susceptibilities and dangers. Let’s find out below that how CSA+ Certification has become high in-demand in such a short span of time:

1. Encouraged by industries: CSA+ has been advanced and is continued by leading IT security professionals. To quote CompTIA, “Content for CSA+ exams stems from a combination of industry-wide survey feedback and contributions from our team of subject matter experts.”

Also, the CSA+ certification provides you an opportunity to boost up your pay-scale. As per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for an information security analyst is $90,120 per year.

2. Globally accepted and appreciated: According to CompTIA, “CSA+ is ISO/ANSI 17024 accredited and is awaiting approval by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for directive 8140/8570.01-M requirements.” Also, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that information security analysts will be the swiftly growing job, with 37 percent overall growth between 2012 and 2022.

3. One of the most desired certification: The certified IT security staff who can examine, check and secure cybersecurity resources are desired by almost every organization. These analysts can be an asset to any organization as their potential to design security integration solutions with analytics devices helps in finding and responding to cyber threats. According to James Stanger, senior director, products, at CompTIA, “Cyber Security Analysts can truly improve an organization’s security posture” with their know-how and ability to bring data analytics to the forefront to “get a real-time, holistic view of the behavior of the network.”

So, what are you waiting for? Kick start your prep for CompTIA CSA+ certification today with uCertify and accelerate your career trajectory and also boost up your pay-scale.

Taras Mochychuk Feedback On CCNP Troubleshoot Course

Taras Mochychuk has 5+ years of work experience as a network engineer. At present, he is working as Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco. He has featured skills in Cisco Technologies, Cisco IOS, Cisco Routers, and much more. A few days ago, he had an access to uCertify’s CCNP Troubleshoot Course. Check out below his feedback on the course:

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