Okay, if you swap the words out of the song for the Wizards of Oz with the title of this post it sort of works. Thought I’d give taking ISACA’s Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification a go given the large amount of non-IT literate business people I’ve been dealing with needing careful hand holding when [...]
Well SANS Network Security 2011 is nearly upon us. The huge event, the GSE practical,that consumed a hefty chunk of my life last year is about to do the same to another embattled batch of GSE candidates. Two of the people I know that have proudly public announced their assault on the GSE exam [...]
Oops, left this sitting in drafts rather than publish this last month. Some useful web sites I use to keep me up to date and help out studying Security and all things SANS. The SANS Reading Room www.sans.org/reading_room/ The Honeypot Challenges www.honeynet.org/challenges The Ethical Hacker www.ethicalhacker.net Pauldotcom http://pauldotcom.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Darkreading room www.darkreading.com SANS forensic blog http://computer-forensics.sans.org/ [...]
I posted the following to a couple of lists to get people thinking about getting off that fence and sign up for the GSE exam. I’ve re-posted here for posterity. Hello All, Jeff Frisk and the folks at GIAC have made a significant effort in making the GSE exam available to more of us to attempt. I have applied [...]
My approach to the multiple choice exam, was to treat it like any normal 500 level SANS exam. My target – life-, work- and proctor-willing, is to take the exam on Saturday the 20th March 2010; which is exactly 42 days from now. As we all know 42 is the mean of Life or is that [...]
