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SCS-C02 vs SCS-C03: What Changed in AWS Security Specialty

September 29, 2026September 29, 2026 Jeff Root AWS Certifications

SCS-C03 AWS Security Specialty banner showing a security engineer in an operations room facing a wall of monitoring screens

AWS rebuilt two domains, moved four points of weight to identity and wrote seven new tasks into the Security Specialty blueprint. Here is what an SCS-C02 candidate keeps, drops and adds.

EXIN PDPP Certification: The Exam You Cannot Simply Book

September 12, 2026September 12, 2026 Jeff Root EXIN Certifications

EXIN PDPP privacy and data protection professional exam banner showing that accredited training is mandatory before certification

Forty questions, 120 minutes, 65 percent to pass. The harder gate comes earlier: EXIN requires accredited training and completed practical assignments before a candidate is allowed to hold Privacy and Data Protection Professional at all.

IBM C1000-197 Guardium Data Protection Guide

July 22, 2026September 8, 2026 Jeff Root IBM Certifications

Real data security officer at a data-activity monitoring dashboard with a locked database, preparing for the IBM C1000-197 Guardium certification

A topic-by-topic guide to the IBM C1000-197 Guardium exam: architecture, agent deployment, policy rule ordering, discovery and classification, reporting, system health, and troubleshooting.