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Ive no issue with studying with someone else.  Don’t know about being able to mentor but sharing knowledge and skills sounds useful to me.

Thanks for your post foip. I will be checking this out with my lab. I am very interested to see more demonstrations of burp.

Install linux on a laptop or your home system and get started.

I would also recommend reading the CEH materials as a good place to start, you do get a broad understanding of various issues around security.

eCPPT is also good in terms of making you focus on web application testing and the security issues surrounding this area, which realy should…[Read more]

Certs are always a way of cutting the number of applications into a short list. Also from a PR point of view from the company perspective they offer value to potential clients.

I would also suggest that perhaps you have a look in your area’s for any business meetups. Try to contact the organiser and offer to do a free presentation on security, I…[Read more]

Depending on your experience of various other technologies.

You may for instance want to start looking at:

Network + or CCNA (if you need networking concepts understanding) type material.
You should also be familiar with both linux and Windows OS
Your programing experience will be useful.

You can then have a look at the likes of CEH, if you…[Read more]

Rather than an IDS, would you not perhaps consider a IPS or IDPS?

You may already have that in mind, but you know those acroynms, often confusion can creep in.

Sometimes the kind of thing that can cause a configuration issue by misunderstanding or lack of procedures (or lack of following of procedure)

At the moment I am working on the elearnsecurity course. Thus far I have enjoyed my own personal experience of this mode of learning.

My main challenge is usually fitting in the time, I am glad that you get plenty of time to focus in on the relevant learning outcomes for the assessment.

Then I can follow up on the other knowledge domains with…[Read more]

Hi,

Although relatively new to these forums and to be honest at the moment struggling to commit enough time to fully read useful insights into the area I am researching as much as I can at the moment.

I would like to comment.

For one I would not drop the word hacking. I recently found that at a couple of general sec awareness sessions I…[Read more]

With regards to the upgrade there has been  a variety of improvements in terms of the readability of the slides. I have still noticed a few bugs, but as yet have not had a chance to feed these back to Armando at elearn but I am confident he will be happy to hear about these and improve further.

The new Social engineering section is quite…[Read more]

Will do. Hopefully well, my feelings about my confidence levels of passing are up and down 🙂

But it wont be for the lack of effort.

I have an opinion about this thread.  I’m currently working on this cert.

I have found that for me this course is one that personally I could afford, spent my staff training budget I think on CEH. But wanted more, so for the first time in my career I put my hand in my own pocket for a course.

So far I can honestly say I don’t feel anyway…[Read more]

Well done. Great news!