>> Welcome to the Cybrary CASP+ course.
This course was designed to help you
prepare for the CAS-004.
This video, I'm going to
introduce myself and give you a little bit of
background information of
>> how the CASP+ courses help me.
>> The learning objectives are to introduce myself,
explain why I pursued the CASP+ certification,
and to give you some examples of how
the CASP+ has helped me in my own business.
Who am I? I'm Todd Dixon.
I'm a husband, father,
business owner, and author.
I'm the CEO of Iron Comet Consulting,
and had been in business for over 20 years.
We're in MSP in the Atlanta area.
We focus mostly on medical customers.
I'm also the author of The Official HIPAA Jungle Map 2.0.
My certifications are the CISSP,
HCISPP, CASP+,
CySA+, Pentest+, Security+, and A+.
My A+ is so old,
that when I took it,
it was a single test and mine doesn't have to be renewed.
I think I took it in 1998 or 1999.
My interests are all things cybersecurity.
My German Shepherd and Muay Thai.
All of these things have one thing in
common and that is that they're all challenging.
Cybersecurity is ever changing
and just when you get on top of one thing,
you find out there for
other things, you've got to go learn.
Training a German Shepherd because they are so
intelligent and so stubborn on their own,
they need to be challenged.
That itself is a challenge to you.
Muay Thai is very different than
boxing because you get to
use eight different striking points.
You've got to watch out from your opponent.
They can throw an elbow or a knee or a kick, a punch.
So it's a lot more to look for and it
really challenges your mind
as much as it challenges your body.
Why did I take the CASP+ certification?
Well in the IT community,
CompTIA is very well known and established.
Any certification you take from them
adds credibility to your own resume.
For me, the CASP+ match
my own goals and also
the directions that I wanted to take myself.
It validated to me that I knew
the concepts that the exam was covering.
It also helps to establish expertise to customers.
Well, at least the customers that
understand what credentials are.
How is the CASP+ help me in my own business?
No matter how much you think you know,
there's always a lot more to learn.
When you sit down for these certifications,
you find that out.
You may be an expert in one area.
But these exams tend to cover
so many areas that you find
out quickly the areas that you are weak in.
It also helped me to take my business
and directions that I had never considered.
When you come across concepts of
resiliency and disaster and backup,
you have to think about things in a different way.
We've all done things one
way for a long part of our life.
But when you get introduced to other concepts,
it helps to broaden your mind so that
you can apply those in your own situations.
It also helped me to fill a lot of
gaps that I had about security.
Then lastly, it makes me an asset to my customers.
If I know more and I can do
more then I can help better protect
them and their data. Let's summarize.
I introduced myself to you as your instructor
and I gave you my reasons for
pursuing the CASP+ certification.
I also explained how
the CASP+ has helped me in my own business.
I hope this lesson was of interest to
you, and I'll see you in the next one.