Specific Skills Required To Security Certification

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Earning your CompTIA Security+ certification shows employers you have demonstrated the aptitude and ability to master such SY0-201 knowledge areas as: general security concepts, communications security, infrastructure security, basics of cryptography, and operational/organizational security.

CompTIA Security+ validates knowledge of systems security, network infrastructure, access control, assessments and audits, cryptography and organizational security.

The CompTIA Security+ Certification is a vendor neutral credential. The Security+ exam is an internationally recognized validation of foundation-level security skills and knowledge, and is used by organizations and security professionals around the globe. The skills and knowledge measured by this course are derived from an industry-wide Job Task Analysis (JTA) and were validated through a global survey in Q4, 2007.

Security+ is the primary course you will need to take if your job responsibilities include securing network services, network devices, and network traffic. It is also the main course you will take ...
... to prepare for the comptia security+ exam. In this course, you'll build on your knowledge and professional experience with computer hardware, operating systems, and networks as you acquire the specific skills required to implement basic security services on any type of computer network.
It seems most I.T. guys have a hard time deciding what certification path to go on, or they have a hard time deciding even if they should go down the certification path. When you are thinking of whhich one to choose ( there are over 450) you should keep your career and career goals in mind. You should ask yourself why do I want a certification. If it is to make more money in a field you are already in you should try to get certified in that field to go along with your experience. If it is to switch to something new, well this is a question only you can answer for yourself. What do you love doing, that should be the deciding factor. Also, it does not hurt to have many certifications.

As to the question should you get certified, well Certification does identify your skill set, and most companies require you to have one now. So yes you should. Also every I.T person should have basic certfications like comptia network exam or Comptia's Network + Certification.