Posts Tagged ‘SANS’

TweetI have started a new SANS class, “Security Policy & Awareness.” This comes at a particulary relevant time, as the organization I am with is starting the Security Policy Development process. I have just finished the first portion of the class, “Security Policy,’ which I will describe in another post. Suffice it to say, this [...]

Passed the GIAC GSEC Certification

Posted: 23rd July 2008 by Josh in Uncategorized
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TweetAfter almost 4 months of taking my class for a couple hours a day, yesterday I took the GIAC Security Essentials Certification test, and passed with a 94%. I was shooting for >90%, and found it to easier than I was thinking it was going to be. Next up is the Gold Certification for GSEC, [...]

New Information Security Class

Posted: 3rd April 2008 by Josh in Uncategorized
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TweetI have started my first pre-requisite for the sans.edu Masters’ of Information Security Engineering program. This first class is SEC401: SANS Security Essentials. You can check out the description here. It is basically the foundational class for the whole InfoSec program, and as such, it deals with some pretty basic topics (Networking Fundamentals, IP & [...]