SANS is collaborating with the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) Melbourne branch to bring Bryce Galbraith, SANS Certified Instructor, live to the ANZ Centre for one night only. This may sound suspiciously like a Vegas show, by I can assure you Bryce is a great speaker and it will be well worth the time to go and [...]
One of the fun facts of logs, if you don’t set up, configure and check ‘em, you’ll never know what’s going on with your systems. Even with quiet, little blogs such as this, it’s well worth having logging set up and enabled. For a while now, starting on 13th of June 2011 at 07:18:02, there’s [...]
In today’s competitive market, IIS (Internet Information Services) servers have become necessary for companies and business organizations. IIS is a web server application and a set of feature extension modules serving roughly 21% of websites on the internet – with over a whopping six million installations worldwide. As a result, your IIS web servers have [...]
I was offered the opportunity to lead mentoring for SANS Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling (SEC-504), here in Sydney, and I leapt at the chance! I love this course and it helped me reach a deeper understanding a number of aspects of my role as the IT security person charged with incident response and [...]
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/ [...]
