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Thoughts on the SANS 560 at Cybercon

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woo hoo!!! As some of you know I’ve been on a SANS binge over the past 18 months at a pace that seemed on the brink of unsustainable at times. Some of the classes like the FOR 408 and FOR 585 were topics very relevant to my duties and interests. Some of the classes covered material that I don’t use much in my current daily life but I knew were big holes in my overall skill set. The SEC 503 squared away my packet analysis skills like I doubt any other course could have. I’ve greatly enjoyed every class I’ve ever taken but the classes were always to learn or refine my skills. So after 18 months of being mature and taking the appropriate classes I rewarded myself by going the opposite route. I took a class that I knew would absolutely teach me new skills and help refine skills I already possessed but I primarily picked the SANS SEC 560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course because it just sounded like a heck of a lot of fun. I’ve already been asked one question about my e

2014 Cybercon Here I Come

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My box of books and swag for the 2014 SANS Cybercon showed up today so I’m pretty much like a kid on Christmas morning flipping through my new books. I signed up for the SEC 560 class (taught by Kevin Fiscus) and am looking forward to a great week.