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Protecting your IT assets from threats is an essential part of business and personal digital activities. VPNs and firewalls are two commonly used security tools to help reduce risk while maintaining usability. When used in concert, IT communications are filtered and encrypted.

According to our IT Skills and Salary Report, 85% of professionals possess at least one certification. That’s a ton of competition in the industry. And the general consensus is the more certifications, the better. So why are so many IT pros and decision-makers putting such an emphasis on certifications? Why is so much investment devoted to training?

As cloud platforms provide ever greater infrastructure capability, automating and managing infrastructure is becoming critical to our strategy and process. Tooling environments are also heavily impacted. Tools like Terraform, configuration automation tools (Chef, Ansible, etc.) and cloud-native infrastructure solutions completely change cost models and workflows. This presentation is an introduction to infrastructure automation in the cloud, a few popular automation tools, and how to tie automation to larger cloud (and business) strategy.

This white paper discusses the Global Knowledge Skills Development Index™ and how it can be used as a tool to help IT professionals identify the most important skill needs, select the appropriate training, and ultimately eliminate skills gaps.

An IT certification is a recognized benchmark mapped to a specific skill set based on standardized testing. A certification demonstrates your dedication, motivation and technical knowledge on a specific platform.

From analyzing your data and allowing to ask natural language questions to working with and building huge data models, this version of Excel has a lot to offer. These are some of the best features that Excel has to offer. Some haven’t finished their evolution yet either.

Next Hop Resolution Protocol enables businesses to have a way for next-hop servers and next-hop clients to communicate with each other directly, bypassing a central hub and preventing potential bottlenecks.

Discover how to accelerate the development of your security skills and competencies by incorporating experiential learning activities such as cyber ranges into training. Cyber ranges have emerged as excellent vehicles for helping IT professionals learn by doing. These realistic, hands-on simulations prepare you for when — not if — you’re attacked. And we’ve added them to GK Polaris!

Policy-based routing (PBR) provides network administrators with agility and flexibility to better manage traffic. With carefully architected policies, you can optimize how segments of your network process data, as well as how bandwidth is managed for business-critical applications.

Microsoft and Global Knowledge are partnering up to showcase the importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Join this event to learn all the tools and tactics to stay safe and secure online throughout the whole year. This webinar event will take you through the new certifications focused on Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity (SCI). You'll learn more about the complete portfolio of associate training and certification for Microsoft Security and how it's designed to meet industry and market needs with roles, skills, and capabilities needed for the job, including specializations, hands-on experience, and practice requirements.