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On March 7, CompTIA hosted the first ever hill briefing on smart cities and communities. On March 16, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection held the first ever hearing on smart cities and communities.

CompTIA has joined the recently created Bipartisan Policy Center’s Coalition to Modernize American Infrastructure. CompTIA has stated that a 21st century infrastructure ecosystem includes transportation (roads, bridges and airports), water (public utilities) and energy (electric grid) that is layered by cross-cutting, secure, smart technology and enabled by ubiquitous broadband connectivity and sensors.

Of all the changes that have taken place in the channel over the past ten years, one the most significant transitions did not directly involve technology or business models. The new IT decision makers are now everywhere in an organization. How does that affect VARs and MSPs? Quite a bit, as most are finding out.

This week, the Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT) hosted a lunchtime panel discussion on the implications a negotiation of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could have on the tech industry.

Earlier this month, bipartisan legislation was introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to help state, local and tribal governments more effectively counter cyber-threats.

The updated CompTIA Project+ certification gives individuals an easier way to verify their project management skills.

These days everything about the NCAA men’s basketball championship – from the way the games are officiated and televised to how the media covers them and fans anticipate and attend them – involves technology.

As a computer science instructor at Bev Facey High School in Alberta, Canada, Gerald Chung gives students hands-on experience repairing computers while teaching them curriculum that prepares them to take CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+ exams.

There’s more than one way to get into the tech workforce, and new apprenticeship programs in the U.S. discussed at SXSW are helping to close the skills gap.

How can you measure the potential success (or failure) of something you know absolutely nothing about? That is one of many reasons why so many IT service providers, vendors and other industry professionals attend CompTIA Canadian IT Business Community meetings. In their latest quarterly meeting near Toronto, the group dove into a variety of informative educational content that pushed the norms, challenging attendees to assess their own business models and capabilities, and look into the future to identify potential gaps in customer solutions and support.

Need a cloud “teaching moment” for your customers and prospects? Last week's Amazon Web Services outage is a great topic for those with concerns over resiliency and uptime.

When Lester Fallin had to get a CompTIA Security+ certification to continue as a developer, he worried that even three decades in the field hadn’t prepared him for questions on infrastructure security. But CompTIA CertMaster got him up to speed and helped him better appreciate the full cybersecurity puzzle.

CompTIA IT Security Community Executive Council Member Ian Trump on Tech and Channel Trends

Get a broad, deep and quick overview on the Trump Administration’s actions on and approach to foreign trade.

Accept the Women’s History Month Challenge: Take meaningful steps each week over the next four weeks to be a mentor, tackle the wage gap, support diversity in technology and address the big picture of women in tech.