Months of waiting, debating about what might occur, what they may ask, what would be required and the occasional bits of study all came to a head on Saturday the 19th of September 2010, in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States of America. I got there two days before, in a vague [...]
Finally. Took the exam tonight, completed all the required challenges and sent off the proof to be marked. I had a few minor problems trying to get my connection details to start the exam, but these were swift resolve by one of the very able admins in the IRC #offsec channel. He was a gentleman [...]
I decided to take a very large leap and attempt one of the toughest, non-specialised, security exams out there, the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification As of today only 16 people hold this qualification. I’ve meet a few of those that hold this certification and am in no doubt they know their security stuff. I [...]
I’ve booked myself on to this course. This time I blame Ash for making me take this one, but the deluded voices in my head also have something to answer for. Four months to get to grips with the 25 hours of study material and play with exercises. Should be simple right? What is this [...]
Being generous of nature, I thought I’d share how to stuff up the exam of Offensive Security 101 course. All the blog postings I’ve found on the exam is how they succeed. Well this is a bit different. I managed to get a remarkable poor result which I can attribute to the following: Not being [...]
