What brought about this madness wasn’t a desire to avoid painting the rest of the house or for public acclaim, neither of which is likely to happen, it was to try something I know I’m weak at and get better at it. Going down the SANS path to do this gives me the advantage of having: a time line, an adviser, targets and the goal of getting in to the SANS reading room.

I’m attempting to get a couple hundred words written five days in the week and aim to have a finished draft of around 40 pages. It’s going to be base on using virtual machines as incident response platforms in corporate Windows environment, when you can’t trust the systems around you. The virtual lab(s) I’m using for the paper’s center piece are almost done, so I can get so real, hands on information in to the paper.

Deadline is the 7th of December!