News from Me

Well, I've been working on my course lately. Only two more weeks left and it will be over. I must admit that I have the strange sensation of drinking from a fire hose. I must admit Mr. Skodus is by far the best instructor for this course. He makes it very realistic with his examples and his excersises. I'm not sure if I informed people of the course I've been taking but its the SANS (www.sans.org) 560 - Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. I plan on putting up some links to relavent sites we used or he pointed out during the course. I will hopefully also see if I can find some tutorials on the software we used (well at least some of it). I myself do not have a complete grasp on the info yet but hopefully I will be able to tinker away with it for the next couple of months. Well that is it for now later.

Been a while

Well, it's been a while since I've posted so I thought I had better update everyone. I have been trying my hardest to understand the SANS 560 course. I must admit doing it through SANS @ Home has made it a bit easier. You basically get a half a days normal training in an evening then you get a couple of days to digest it. You have access to the virtual lab they have created to hack away at. I've taken previous course with sans and the more I do the more the internet scares the hell out of me. I tell you if somebody wants to get into your system or network and you have internet connectivity they can do it. If they have local machine access then you are screwed guranteed. I must admit I am surprised by the mentality at work in regards to security. We are far less worried about security than safety. We have safety briefings every thursday afternoon but never have we had a security briefing. I've gotten information on several sites and I will be posting links to them for anybody that may be interested. I've decided not to take the GPEN test as I don't think I will be ready for that. So that money will be put towards my BSc course I'm starting to take. Well time for some sleep I will update again soon...

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