{"id":164,"date":"2008-11-02T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T06:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-09-16T22:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:55:43","slug":"sans-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/sans-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"SANS 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A little while ago I discovered that Verizon has annual training budget for employees to do work related courses of their choice.\u00a0 Around that time I learned that SANS was holding one of their training events here in Sydney<\/a>. I’ve always wanted to do a SANS course but the cost put me off.<\/p>\n

I enrolled in “SEC502: Perimeter Protection In-Depth<\/a>“.\u00a0 I’ve got a lot of experience with designing and building datacenter networks but it’s been some years since i was was working with people that i could call mentors. So I could do with a bit of a refresher.\u00a0 The course<\/a> was being run by its author, Chris Brenton.<\/p>\n

The course finished up yesterday. It was an intense 6 days of theory, practice and examples from Chris’s extensive experience. This course was definately worth the money. I’ve got 6 books of course notes full of scribbled comments. I’ll be going back to the books for months or more, to get what i couldnt absorb during the course itself.<\/p>\n

It was the best course I’ve ever done. Equal best with training i did with Dr. Rex di Bona some years ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

My next task is to study for the GIAC certification that’s associated with the course. It’s open book, so that worries me a little. It’ll be hard!<\/p>\n

Another attendee’s blog: Chris Mohan<\/a><\/p>\n

Some relevant websites;<\/p>\n

InGuardians<\/a> Dr Rex Di Bona<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE: 4 Mar 09 – A week and a bit ago I passed the exam. I’m now a GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst (GCFW)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little while ago I discovered that Verizon has annual training budget for employees to do work related courses of their choice.\u00a0 Around that time I learned that SANS was holding one of their training events here in Sydney. I’ve always wanted to do a SANS course but the cost put me off. I enrolled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-linkedin","category-networking","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}