Troy’s book CCNA Essentials by Sybex Publishing was released in November 2011.  It has been chosen as the textbook for both online and instructor-led classes at several colleges in the U.S. 

He also served as a contributing Subject Matter Expert for Kaplan's CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Certification Exam Preparation Guide. His other recent work includes:

·         Co-author of the VMWare VCP Review Guide with Brian Perry, Chris Huss, and Jeanne Fields on Sybex. Released in the spring of 2011.

·         Contributing author and technical editor of Todd Lammle’s Network + Study Guide by Sybex, released in January, 2012.

·         Author of Change Your Career: Computer Network Security as Your New Profession by Kaplan Publishing in 2007.

·         Technical Editor for Toby Skandier’s Street Smarts, a hands-on guide to Network + topics released in January 2012.

·         Technical editor for Bill Ferguson’s Network + Review Guide released in January 2012.

·         Practice exam author for the Security+ Cert Guide by David Prowse by Pearson Publishing.

·         Prep question writer for Network+ Study Guide Sybex in 2010.

·         Technical editor for Windows 7 Study Guide Sybex in 2011.

·         Contributing author for the CCNA-Wireless Study Guide  by Todd Lammle by Sybex in 2010.

·         Co-author of the A+ Review Guide for 220-801/220-802 on Sybex released in Sept 2012.

Troy also is a courseware developer. Among the work he has done in this area is wireless training materials for Motorola in 2011 and instructor materials for a series of books by Sybex on Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2011.

Troy also teaches Cisco, Microsoft, CompTIA, and Security classes for several large corporate training companies. Among these are Global Knowledge and New Horizons.

He now creates certification practice tests and study guides for the Transcender and Self-Test brands. Troy lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Troy’s professional accomplishments include B.B.A., MCSE (NT/2000/ 2003, 2008), CCNA, CCNP, MCP+I, CNA, A+, Net+, MCT, Server+, I-Net+, MCSA, CIW p, CIWa, CIW security analyst, CWNA, CWSP, CWNT, CWNE, MCTS: Vista Configuration, MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician, MCITP: Server Administrator, MCITP: Consumer Support Technician, MCTS: Forefront Client and Server Configuration, MCTS: Business Desktop Deployment with BDD, MCTS: Office Project Server 2007, MCTS: Windows Active Directory: Configuration, MCTS: Applications Infrastructure: Configuration, MCTS: Network Infrastructure: Configuration, CCSI, and VCP.

Robin M. Abernathy has been working in the IT certification preparation industry at Kaplan IT Certification Preparation, the owners of the Transcender and Self Test brands, for more than a decade. Robin has written and edited certification preparation materials for many ISC², Microsoft, CompTIA, PMI, Cisco, and ITIL certifications and holds multiple IT certifications from these vendors.

Robin provides training on computer hardware and software, networking, security, and project management. Over the past couple years, she has ventured into the traditional publishing industry by technically editing several publications.  More recently, she has presented at technical conferences and hosted webinars on IT certification topics.

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3. Telecommunications and Network Security

4. Information Security Governance & Risk Management

5. Software Development Security

6. Cryptography

7. Security Architecture and Design

8. Operations Security

9. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

10. Legal, Regulations, Investigations, and Compliance

11. Physical (Environmental) Security

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