sounds like a good investment...just pre-ordered :-)

Nice price !

I've already attended some of their trainings in Germany 

Welcome hitmen,


Well using a netbook for such things is quite not viable. You could either buy a notebook (I'm working with Acer for about 8 years now) or you could try some online labs, like the "Coliseum web app security lab" provided by elearnsecurity.com.

Depends on how much knowledge you've got in detail.

Regards.

Hi easy,

you could give global sites like monster.com or stepstone.com a shot for a basic job to get into things like MaXe already said. It's hard to directly jump into InfoSec without any practical experiences as e.g. a network or system administrator.

What country do you currently live in ?

Regards.

Congrats!

Good to see you guys over there

Well, but exploring the world of Skyrim is quite useful at all...much better weather, faster learning/skilling and cheaper houses to buy!! 

Hi gromic,

Thanks. It's been a good investment so far, and as far as I can say now, I don't need 120 days to complete the whole course. I think, it's quite a good preparation for the offensive-security courses.

@coding_fury / @3xban:
I agree...the website is not looking very serious, but the members-area and the course pages are well-made and a great benefit for someone who's new to the pentest topic.

Great one, isn't it ?
Nice, message me if you like 

That's the Hack-me "HackademicRTB1" provided by GhostInTheLab  I've posted a slightly different solution for it on my blog, but it works on this way too.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the interesting reviews, there are a lot of points I am going to adopt on my way 

Hi xXxKrisxXx,

I just enrolled for the eCPPT and started to study on it. The study material is quite good and organized and there are a lot of interesting new things in it. I do not have regrets about this purchase - looks like this gonna be much fun  It's been the right decision to take the eCPPT before the OSCP!

The CTP is indeed very intimidating...you really have to like pain to enroll for it...so what are you waiting for ? go for it 

Well I'll skip the CEH for now, let's have a look how I'm doing after the eCPPT.

Thanks xXxKrisxXx & Seen for your answers!

@xXxKrisxXx:
I thought about the SMFE course made by SecurityTube too, but it's quite too new and more specific. If there is more feedback on the SMFE available, I think it's good to take it after the eCPPT and before the OSCP/E. Have you planned to take it ?

Thanks for the list of ressources, I already know some of them, especially oldapps.com. I used them to rebuild a bufferoverflow exploit by myself...well an easy one, but at least it worked like a charme 
And the last one is really nice!

@Seen:
Yes, you're right! I think that the CEH is only a HR relevant certificate. I don't like multiple-choice exams, even though the VCP exam was quite hard work, but they do not say a lot about the real skill of the holder...well in times of braindumps.... they do not say anything 

Hello EH-Community,

I'm new to this community, but I have read a lot of good & interesting articles in here and that's the reason why I need your advice 

I'm currently working as a network administrator for about 4 years now (it's my first job) and would like to go deeper into InfoSec. I spent most time of my day on router, switch and firewall shells, so I've got quite good networking fundamentals. Beside this I am a LPI - certfied Linux fanboy - well, I don't use Windows unless there's no other way, like in the world of Active Directory  and I am a VMware enthusiast, because I love this technology and its impact.
I've got coding knowledge in VB.NET, PHP/SQL and basic ASM, C++.

Now I would like to realign my focus on InfoSec like attack and prevention mechanisms. I'm interested in InfoSec for over a year now and already have some basic fundamentals (like WebSecurity, BufferOverflows, usage of Metasploit and some other common tools) but I'm missing the in-depth details. That's the reason why I started to blog about things but this only helps a little. Now I've read a lot about certifications on EH and think those courses and (practical) exams are the best way to learn the details.

I'm currently thinking of going this way during the next 2 years:
CEH -> eCPPT Pro -> OSCP -> OSCE
(Taking the CEH and eCPPT Pro until summer, and the OSCP until end of 2012).

What do you think ?

By the way: My problem is that I have to pay most of the courses/exams out of my own pocket because my employer doesn't want to pay them. I hope that they'll pay at least the CEH

Thanks & Regards