The IT Hour | 6 September 2024 | IT Project Management & Certs

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Friend of show Pam Lefkowitz joined us to talk about how IT project management and accompanying certifications are important to your IT career.

Community Update

• Okta Device Trust with JumpCloud via SCEP | best practices
• Claris Filemaker Pro OIDC connection...anyone done this? | best practices
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Product Releases and Announcements

• JumpCloud now has AWS Workspaces Support!
• In continuation of Windows MDM CSP Policies V1, we are  pleased to announce that Windows SCEP Policy is now GA along with the rest of the MDM policies.
  • Help center article - https://jumpcloud.com/support/create-a-windows-scep-profiles-policy 
    
    
• JumpCloud Go Improvements: Enhanced User Experience for Device Registration and Daily Use
• EA Launch of Device Monitoring & Alerting!

Main Topic: IT Project Management & Certs

• The value of certifications - should I? Shouldn’t i? And which ones should I look at?
• For the unemployed or soon to be unemployed - WIOA
• https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/workforce-investment/adult 
• Things to think about as layoffs continue - be aware, prepare, don’t fear

IT News

• Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots (bleeping computer)
• LiteSpeed Cache bug exposes 6 million WordPress sites to takeover attacks (bleeping computer)
• The US, UK, EU and other major nations have signed a landmark global AI treaty (engadget)