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Professional Certifications
Certifications are a big part of any IT related field as they serve to confirm and affirm what one know. Certifications also provide continuing education in an effort to keep professionals abreast on the latest technology trends and techniques. There are two types of these certs: vendor-specific certs and non-vendor specific certs ranging from fairly broad knowledge to very specific. There are hundreds of existing certs in effort to give credibility to their holders. I am always working to broaden my knowledge base and get more and more certifications. As of now I posses the SailPoint Certified IdentityNow Professional, CompTIA Security+, and CRISC certifications. I also use to posses CompTIA's Network+, but I let it lapse as networking is not within my profession: