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Welcome back. Previously we discussed some of the basic certifications you will need to jump start your journey into the IT Security field and open many opportunities for you. But what if you want to take it to the next level. Perhaps you are aspiring for a Director of Security or CISO role. What certifications lay the foundation to purse that direction?

There are actually many other specialty areas in security available for us to discuss (like those created by industry leaders like Cisco, GIAC, SANS, ISACA, (ISC)2 and many others). But for the interest of brevity, I’d like to highlight some of the more popular ones. The first two I’d like to introduce are from ISACA and are favorable certifications for those who wish to move into management positions. Those two are: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). 

There are more than 140,000 professionals certified globally with CISA and it is one of the top paying IT certifications of 2018 as reported by Global Knowledge. As companies are faced with increasingly more security challenges including new global threats (e.g. ransomware), new government regulations (e.g. GDPR), and new technologies to secure; they are under enormous pressure to hire the right talent to manage it. With the CISA certification, you will be recognized as someone that can take a comprehensive view of information systems and their relationship to a success business-wide security initiative. In addition to passing the exam, this certification requires the submission of a formal application which requires certain levels of education and work experience. Check out their web site for more information.

The CISM certification is different and comes at security from a company policy standpoint. It covers four key areas: information security governance, Information risk management, information security program development and management, and information security incident management. Passing this certification demonstrates that you understand security and how it relates to the overall business goals. It shows that you not only understand security, but also how to build and manage an information security program within the company. 

But perhaps you’re looking to achieve an even higher position, one that leads all of the company’s security needs, such as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Director of IT Security. Moving into these roles require digging much deeper into all the individual niches in the security field. The first one to consider is CompTIA’s Advanced Security Practitioner (or CASP). CASP is a relatively new certification from CompTIA and is meant to test the student on a broad range of security skills. In fact, it meets the ISO 17024 standard and is compliant with regulations in the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

Once you pass the CASP certification, you’ll likely be feeling pretty good about your skills, a Luke Skywalker of Security experts if you will. But what if you want to go for Yoda status? One of the top respected certifications is undoubtedly the (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Practitioner (or CISSP), which is not your average certification and will require significant work to achieve. It is meant to demonstrate a clear and deep knowledge of all things security and is fast becoming a requirement for many of the very top positions in IT security. 

Although CASP and CISSP are great options for some of the top IT positions and cover a broad range of security topics, they are very different in what the exam covers. The CASP exam tests whether you know HOW to implement many of common security concepts, so their questions will be mostly unambiguous. For example, “what command line tool is used to create a 128-bit hash?” The CISSP exam, on the other hand, tests whether you know what the best practices are when dealing with complex security situations. Here, the options available to choose from may, in fact, all be technically correct. For example, take the following question, “Which of the following is the PRIMARY advantage of data classification for an organization?” Here, all the options could be valid examples of legitimate advantages, but the correct answer is the one that has the most advantages. 

Be sure to check out many of the training titles we have in security, and good luck my young Jedi.

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Martin Schaeferle is the Vice President of Technology for LearnNowOnline. Martin joined the company in 1994 and started teaching IT professionals nationwide to develop applications using Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL Server. He has been a featured speaker at various conferences including Microsoft Tech-Ed, DevConnections and the Microsoft NCD Channel Summit. Today, he is responsible for all product and software development as well as managing the company’s IT infrastructure. Martin enjoys staying on the cutting edge of technology and guiding the company to produce the best learning content with the best user experience in the industry. In his spare time, Martin enjoys golf, fishing, and being with his wife and three adult children. 

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Navigating your IT security certifications, part 2

Here at Go1, we work to partner with high-quality content providers across various topics so that we can cover all our customers’ training needs. That is why we’re excited about our partnership with Intellezy, who are popular for their engaging, instructor-led videos that help you learn what you need, when you need it. 

It's no secret - the new economy demands that we continuously renew and retool our skills. Whether you're just entering the workforce, moving ahead in your chosen field, or changing careers, Intellezy microlearning strengthens your competence AND confidence. Intellezy can provide an eLearning solution like no other. With 5,000+ videos, they offer a robust library of Microsoft Office, Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud microlearning. Their unique 3 - 5 minute short segment videos, with onscreen instructors, provide solutions to common workday challenges. 

There are many reasons to start using Intellezy for your training needs but one that clearly stands out is their expertly presented content, which focuses on producing high-quality professional content for professionals like you. If you're ready to expand your skillset through the best training providers available, you will find all of Intellezy's content in Go1 Premium today!

A running theme of this month's productivity courses has been the fact you can't buy time! Everyone is given the same twenty-four hours every day. How you use them is up to you. This week's course is provided by Vado, and called "Brain Bites - Time Management". You will learn specific tips and tricks for better time management, from some of the world’s top experts in time management, including Stephen Covey, Dave Crenshaw, Peter Drucker, and Tim Ferriss.

Brain Bites micro-learning courses are information-rich and convey important topics with an engaging mix of video and animation. With 5 minute video lessons and 30-minute-or-less courses, Brain Bites are the perfect tool to educate today’s busy workforce.

Brain Bites courses are designed to be fast paced, information-rich courses which use a combination of video and animation to convey important business topics quickly and effectively, in five-minute micro-learning lessons. Written by highly experienced subject matter experts and presented in a two-person video-based style, Brain Bites courses are the perfect way to educate today’s busy workforce. 

Describe the Time Audit, including use of the Time Audit  to analyse your productivity 

Discuss the benefit of focusing on your Circle of Influence

List the three keys of a useful To-Do List

Discuss using the 80/20 rule to connect your priorities to your energy level and to manage your To-Do List and interruptions

Identify Time Wasters and discuss how Batching can improve productivity

Vado is a US based company that's changing the face of learning with micro-learning courses, followed by step-by-step instructions on how to apply the course on the job where 70% of development happens. Vado has partnered with Go1 to offer their uniquely designed courses in topic areas of communication, human resources and professional development training.

Take back your day – learn how to reduce distractions and focus on priorities to get more done

Course of the week: Brain Bites - Time Management

Recently, Go1's Dan Fish, Director of Strategy & Partnerships, attended the Microsoft Future Now conference at Carriage Works in Sydney. 

Here, Dan shares a couple of quick highlights from the event.

Excerpt from Dan Fish's article in Medium

"Speaking at the conference was a fantastic selection of Microsoft heavy weights and guests. Kicking off proceedings was Microsoft Australia Managing Director Steven Worrall. He spoke passionately about “people first, technology second” and paid a heartfelt tribute to two Microsoft Partner representatives who lost their lives in the terrible Christchurch terrorist attack. 

Following Steven was Brad Smith, Global President for Microsoft, who passed on great insight and thinking from within the business over the last 2 decades. Closing proceedings was an experienced panel of speakers providing real insight around how to win the battle for talent in today’s ever evolving society. The panel was chaired by Narelle Hooper (Editor of Company Director) and included Chuck Edward (Corporate VP, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Microsoft) and Sara Caplan (PwC Australia’s National Skills Lead and CEO of PwC’s Skills for Australia).

Now onto a couple of the highlights from the Future Now conference itself..."

Genevieve on stage discussing the future is here. A photo taken in a Japan subway on 2003 pre smart phones

Genevieve Bell — Anthropologist, Professor Engineering & Computer Science at The Australian National University and former Intel exec.

Genevieve delivered an incredibly engaging talk called ‘The future is now: the intersection of culture and technology’. The discussion broke down into some key areas which is discussed in further detail in the full article.

Mikaela Jade delivering the Welcome to Country, Future Now Sydney 28 March 2019

Mikaela Jade — Founder & CEO of Indigital.

Mikaela delivered the Welcome to Country but also spoke about her amazing business, Indigital. I would urge you to check it out. One of the best utilisations of Augmented Reality (AR) I’ve seen.

Head over to Medium to read the full article!

Dan Fish is the Director of Strategy & Partnerships here at Go1, an incredibly talented and driven team focused on disrupting the world of education. If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to connect with Dan on LinkedIn or say hello here.

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Go1's Dan Fish shares his highlights from the Microsoft Future Now conference

Have you and your team accomplished something special? Enter the LearnX Live Awards 2019!

The LearnX Live Awards is an international awards program that recognises multiple fields within talent management across the corporate, education and public-service sectors. Each year the Awards uncover incredible projects and solutions that deliver best practice and business value.

The Awards have been in operation since 2008 – think your team could be a winner in 2019? 

The Awards are open to individuals, teams and enterprises from the corporate, education and public-service sectors worldwide, that have implemented or released a project/solution relating to the development and management of enterprise talent, since January 2017. 

Vendors may enter with, or on behalf of a client, with prior endorsement from the client.

Go1 is a proud sponsor of this year’s Content Curation award – we encourage you to enter and show your team and partners how much you value their talent and work.

Nominations open for the 2019 FuturistiX Live! Awards

Here at Go1, we work to partner with high-quality content providers across various topics so that we can cover all our customers’ training needs. That is why we’re excited to introduce two content partners who are helping us provide training across the professional development, safety, and compliance training spaces.

Sarder Learning offers over 200 courses and more than 450 byte-sized lessons on the world’s best business practices, all available in Go1 Premium. Their content leverages the expertise from Fortune 1000 corporate leaders, Ivy League professors, and best-selling book authors, including:

Peter Senge - author of The Fifth Discipline and MIT professor
 

Henry Paulson - former US Secretary of the Treasury and former CEO of Goldman Sachs
 

Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn - Chief Knowledge Officer at CISCO
 

Tiger Tyagarajan - President and CEO at Genpact
 

ERI Safety Videos is a US-based work health and safety content provider with over 580 courses in Go1 Premium. 

With over 30 years of experience creating employee training products, ERI Safety Videos produces courses that engage and motivate workers while delivering key safety lessons in an efficient manner. Their slogan, “Preventing Injuries Through Employee Training,” reaffirms their commitment to creating safety training products that speak to real workers about the safety issues they need to know about to prevent workplace injuries. They believe that employee safety training products need to accomplish more than just OSHA compliance; they must also be powerful and motivational. 

ERI releases new programs four times a year, ensuring that their training is always fresh and applicable.

At Go1, we work to partner with high-quality content providers so we can cover all our customers’ training needs. That is why we’re excited to introduce two content partners.

Go1 partners with leading professional development, safety, and compliance training

We're delighted to have partnered with Walkgrove- a company who are passionate about providing award-winning bespoke eLearning solutions for companies and individuals! 

Walkgrove is a training consultancy, formed in 1994, which specialises in the development of mainly bespoke training solutions using all modern media, including e-learning, mobile and VR. It has many clients in the public, private and not for profit sectors, and have worked with the likes of M + W Group, Maximus, Cory Environmental, Australia Post and Napp Pharmaceuticals. 

Walkgrove works hard to ensure that their training options deliver real value and impact businesses tangibly and positively. With a diverse range of training options, their courses are great for anyone who would benefit from building self-confidence and self-belief in their abilities before moving into more complex areas of managing people and events. This is particularly beneficial for junior and aspiring managers and team leaders and supervisors!  

Walkgrove is a valuable addition to Go1 and we hope that you enjoy all of what they have to offer. You can now access their training as part of Go1 Premium for no additional costs today.

Did you know that Go1 have partnered with Wall Street Prep? This exciting partnership enables us to continue to provide the best content available so that you can meet all of your training needs! Learn more about Wall Street Prep below.

Wall Street Prep is a global full-service financial training firm, providing self-study programs as well as instructor-led training and e-learning services to investment banks, universities, financial institutions, and Fortune 1000 companies. Wall Street Prep has trained at some of the most prestigious academic institutions and corporations in the world, and now their courses are available in Go1 Premium! Course topics include:

In this course, you will develop a 3-statement model completely from scratch, inputting historical data and assumptions to project out financial statements using step-by-step instruction on selecting, locating, and developing appropriate projection drivers. At completion, you will have developed a complete and comprehensive three-statement model using various supporting schedules.

Go1 makes it easy for businesses to train their staff, with the world’s largest compliance, professional development and general training marketplace. Provide your employees with the opportunity to build their skills and accomplish their goals with the best courses available! You can now find all of Wall Street Prep courses in Go1 Premium.

Want to gain access to Wall Street Prep training? Sign up for Go1 Premium today!

Meet Go1 content partner: Wall Street Prep

Here at Go1, we work to partner with high-quality content providers across various topics so that we can cover all our customers’ training needs. That is why we’re excited to announce two new content partners who are helping us provide training across the professional development and compliance training spaces.

This means that you will be able to access training from our new partners above as part of your Go1 Premium subscription for no additional costs.

Learn more below about our new Content Partners below! 

SkillSolve is a UK-based provider offering 15 of their fully accredited multimedia eLearning packages through Go1 Premium. All SkillSolve packages are developed, maintained, and supported by accredited trainers with over 25 years of experience in the field. The content is designed for self-paced learning and offers different levels of depth to meet learners’ needs. The Introduction level typically entails 4-5 hours of learning while Foundation level requires 20-25 hours of learning, and Practitioner Level requires 35-40 hours of learning.

Learn more about the 15 courses available from SkillSolve here 

Trident Shield specializes in active shooter/active assailant training and workplace violence readiness and has partnered with Go1 to offer 3 of their stand-out Assailant Readiness courses now available in Go1 Premium. 

Unlike many other training providers, Trident Shield focuses on creating a relationship with the learner and easing them into the difficult aspects of the topic. Their courses are much more in-depth than others available and provide a functional education on how to perform essential response skills, versus the typical training which stops at only what to do.

Learn more about the 3 Assailant Readiness courses available from Trident Shield here 

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Go1 partners with leading professional development and compliance training providers

Amy Wheldon is a Customer Success Manager in Go1’s US Operations team. Read her insights into the importance of embracing future technologies after attending the recent Learnapalooza event in Seattle. 

I recently attended an exciting Learnapalooza event that was held in Seattle on March 28th. 

Hosted by HackingHR and Learnapalooza, the event brought together a panel of experts in artificial intelligence, augmented reality, data analytics, HR recruitment and more.

Go1’s Caroline Brant, Global Learning Strategist, was part of the panel for the Upskilling Yourself: Future Technologies Panel & Resume Hacking Workshop. 

The conversation was centered around dispelling the false sense that artificial intelligence, learning automation and ed tech are something for the future. Automation and artificial intelligence are fast becoming an integral part of operations at most large corporations. 

Over 40% of large corporations are already using automation for training and HR. The ever-widening gap between companies that embrace automation, and those that don’t, will grow as learning automation and artificial intelligence are more commonly adopted according to the HR Exchange. 

HR needs to move as fast as other departments to embrace the future and adopt new technologies. This is not hard and if it is, it shouldn’t be. Technology exists today to allow us to do this. Automation and upskilling is not just the future – it is today! 

If you haven’t invested in modern learning tools you risk lower retention, skill gaps, lower productivity and employee dissatisfaction.  

As Caroline said during the panel discussion, “We need to be able to deliver the right content, at the right moment, to today’s workforce so they can solve the immediate challenge they are facing.”

It was great to hear from all the panellists on the day and to see the passion from everyone involved in this dynamic industry. It’s certainly an exciting time for L&D!

Reach out to Amy at amy.wheldon@go1.com or via LinkedIn to learn more about how Go1 can help you improve your corporate training program with the right technology.  

Amy Wheldon is a Customer Success Manager in Go1’s US Operations team. Read her insights into the importance of embracing future technologies after attending the recent Learnapalooza event in Seattle.

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