More interviewing skills on display by our friend, Jason Haddix of Security Aegis. If he keeps this up, we may just have to make him our roving reporter with a regular column doing many more interviews with those who create the courses and train the security stars of tomorrow. What do you EH-Netters out there think of more interviews?

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Don

Nice work!
It would be nice to see Jason doing more interviews.

Hello all,
My name's Armando Romeo,
I'm the founder of the eLearnSecurity project.

What's your budget Andrew ?  

Prices will be released soon. We will have a very very affordable version for students: these are college students, or  professionals entering the IT Security field who can't afford spending thousand dollars on a 5 days training session but still wanting a complete distance learning course.

This will be a stripped version, as it will not include some of the great features (and advanced topics) of the Professional version.

But, even the Professional version, will have a lower price than all the other similar online courses.


Please feel free to ask for more information here, or follow us on Twitter where we disclose more details day by day.

Thanks EthicalHacker.net !

Hi awesec,

We are giving a 20% discount to the first 50 who submit their email address on www.elearnsecurity.com. This discount will apply only to the Professional version, and students are very welcome.

(Professional and Student versions are just names to differentiate the two offers! We do not limit the purchase of the Student by professionals and vice versa)


My aim is to have deals with colleges and universities to provide our Professional version to their students at a discounted rate.
At now we don't have planned discounts for students to buy the Professional version.

I advise you to reserve your discount now by entering your email address. You will also discover the authors panels and prices before anyone else.

@BillV  Proof that a lot is still going on behind the scene

@steven1664 I understand your point.

We love OSCP and Backtrack. I use Backtrack everyday.
But in my opinion a real Professional, should know what those tools are doing, what are the techniques involved, what's the theory involved before playing with tools.

If you're not just a Penetration Tester, but instead you are called to provide solutions to your customers, you need to deeply understand the Threat in all its parts.

We aim at providing a strong strong grasp of the techniques and then hands on exercises through labs that also use, among the other tools, Backtrack tools.

Moreover, we aim at helping Pen testers on:
1) Using a rigorous methodology
2) Reporting their findings effectively

The above two points, along with the forementioned understanding of the threats, makes the difference between an amateur who fires up a live distro  and a professional.


We are talking about a different kind of course.
Yes,  the Professional version, will be in that range of price.

The Student course will be much cheaper, without videos and without most advanced techniques (writing Rootkits, remote shell, reporting...).

@T_Bone Within November we should be done! (We are not just delivering the course in PDF's, our elearning system is complex but once done students will learn in a more enjoyable and effective fashion)

The preview of the penetration testing course is out.
http://www.elearnsecurity.com/course/penetration_testing/

Just an FYI...