From the description of the course you can see that it's based on the aircrack-ng suite. The aircrack-ng suite is also described in the CEH course, but I think that the BackTrack WuFi will be in more detail.

Please note that this is just my opinion, I didn't attend the course.

Other opinion is that you can't consider this course as a precursor to CEH, the Offensive-Security 101 course could be considered a precursor to CEH.

York_daro,

The price of the certificate shouldn't be an obstacle to you.
This depends if you really want to test you knowledge and to be able to prove you employers that "you know what you are talking about".

If you really want to take a cert, in my opinion you have two choices:
1. Self study. If the price of the course is to high for you, do a lot of self study. Use virtual labs, read books etc. When you feel confident about your knowledge, you can take the cert, the price of the exam is not that high (non-US guy oppinion here also).
2. Prove you employer that you are willing to specialise youself in security, and, if this is important for him or the company's project, maybe he'll support the price of the course/exam.

Please note that both of the choices depend very much on you commitment to you goal.

Hope this helps...

Hello everybody,

I'm not new to this forum (I posted only twice in the past), I am reading it for the past few months and I want to thank don and all of you guys for making me come back every day eager to check the new posts.

On topic now: I passed my Security+ 2007 on 28 August with a score of 836. I studied about two months, tried to do it every day but not all the time I could do this.

The books I used:
Microsoft Press - CompTIA Security+ Training Kit - 2003
Que - Security+ Training Guide - 2004
Syngress CompTIA Security+ JK0-010 Study guide and practice exam - 2007

Although the Syngress book was related to JK0-010 exam not SY0-101, it help me very much to understand very well some things that were not that clear.

I was expecting an easy exam, but, for my surprise it wasn't that easy. It made me think a bit. Also I didn't know that I am taking the 2007 version of the exam, but in the end, when I found out this, I was very proud.

Next step will be OSCP blackazzaro recommended and then, of course, CEH.

I hope that I would become an active member of this forum.

Regards,
Florin

Thanks for your replies guys.

But I was interested in alternative methods that I can use to detect and map the AP.

From what I know the GPS method has some limitations - it can't be used to detect AP inside buildings.

If someone can give me a valuable hint I'll greatly appreciate.

Hello everybody,

Lately I’ve done some wardriving sessions through the company’s premises to discover if there are any rogue access points attached to the wired network.

I discovered some APs but what I am interested in is how I can map/plot these APs into something like Google Earth.

I am using Backtrack with Kismet as software, and a laptop + Ubiquity card with external antenna as hardware.

I know about the solution with a GPS receiver that works pretty well with Kismet, but since I don’t have such a GPS device yet I was wondering if there are any other alternative solutions for doing this instead of using a GPS.

Thanks in advance for you answers.