Correction: CompTIA Continuing Education Units Hack: Earning CEUs Without Buying Courses
Corrected by Melik Can Sariyer · Software Engineer and Linux OS Developer
Melik Can Sariyer found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Pass4Sure
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 11 July 2026
The exact change
"The CE program is designed to recognize the work practitioners are already doing on the job and in the community. The activity categories reflect that. We are not trying to force people back into classrooms." -- James Stanger, Chief Technology Evangelist at CompTIA ..."I have not paid for a renewal in eight years. SANS webcasts, ISACA chapter events, and BSides talks cover my full Security+ and CASP+ renewal cycles. The trick is logging them as you attend, not at the last minute." -- Lesley Carhart, Principal Industrial Incident Responder at Dragos Inc. ...Brian Krebs, the longtime independent security journalist behind KrebsOnSecurity, has written that the documentation requirements for the publishing category are far lighter than candidates expect, and consistent low-volume blogging covers a renewal cycle for many practitioners. ...Wendy Nather, a longtime industry analyst now at 1Password, has commented in interviews that the work-experience CEU category is the most underused renewal mechanism in the industry, simply because candidates assume they need to do something extra rather than documenting what they already do.
The CE program is designed to recognize the work practitioners are already doing on the job and in the community. The activity categories reflect that; the intent is not to force people back into classrooms. ...A practitioner who stays active in the community can go years without paying for a renewal at all. SANS webcasts, ISACA chapter events, and BSides talks are enough on their own to cover a full Security+ or CASP+ renewal cycle, provided they get logged as they happen rather than left until the last minute. ...The documentation requirements for the publishing category are far lighter than most candidates expect, and consistent low-volume blogging is enough to cover a renewal cycle for many practitioners. ...The work-experience CEU category is widely considered one of the most underused renewal mechanisms in the industry, simply because candidates assume they need to do something extra rather than documenting what they already do.
Suggested change
De-attributed 4 fabricated named-expert quotes/claims to plain prose.
Why this is better
De-attributed 4 fabricated named-expert quotes/claims (James Stanger, Lesley Carhart, Brian Krebs, Wendy Nather), none of which had a locatable source, to plain prose.
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