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 [...]
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/ [...]
Here’s a list of some of the additional material I used to on top of the SANS courseware. I used these as a jump off point to understand some more in-depth points Books: Wireshark Network Analysis: The Official Wireshark Certified Network Analyst Study Guide by Laura Chappell Extrusion Detection by Richard Bejtlich A Practical Guide [...]
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 [...]
Quick word on indexing for SANS exams. SANS exams are open book, this means you can refer to the books at any point during the exam. In fact you can refer to any paper notes during the exam, only electronic notes are disallowed. Time is the enemy in open book exams, as spending too much [...]
