SANSHome Update, January 2006

From: The SANS Institute (sanssans.org)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 11:42:52 CST

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Dear Security Express,

This year make it your goal to give priority to protecting and defending
your organization's vital resources! The new year has only just begun
and already we have seen a major vulnerability from Microsoft, reminding
us that information security is more important than ever. And the key
to effective information security is quality education. The SANSHome
program brings SANS top-notch training to you! It is an excellent way
to sharpen your technical skills, get up to speed on the latest cyber
threats, and learn the best strategies to secure your systems.

SANSHome is the closest thing to a live classroom experience without
having to travel. It is taught using a next-generation webcast
technology that allows us to demonstrate tools, use whiteboard
technology, and employ a question answering capability. This flexible
format of hands-on, pragmatic security training that accommodates your
schedule cannot be found anywhere else!

We, your Home instructors, personally invite you to join us for one of
the upcoming sessions that are currently open for registration! Three
six-day immersion training courses are being featured during the next
few months:

*Security 401: SANS Security Essentials, David Rice, Monday, January 30, 2006
  http://www.sans.org/athome/details.php?id=1343
This course introduces you to the entire spectrum of information
security from policies to firewalls and IDS/IPS to Business Continuity
Planning and Incident Handling. No matter what your particular
expertise, Security Essentials is a course that "fills in all the holes"
and prepares you for the GSEC and CISSP certifications. Moreover, this
class gives you hands-on experience with tools and utilities every
security practitioner should know. Tools include nmap, nessus, Snort,
PGP, MBSA, and a host of others. This class is a must if you want to get
the big picture as well as gain practical experience.

*Security 503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth, Johannes Ullrich, Thursday, February 2, 2006
  http://www.sans.org/athome/details.php?id=1341
This course not only provides a unique opportunity to intimately
understand the traffic passing through your network but also shows the
exciting craft of applying these basic principals in the analysis of
traffic patterns. You will learn to recognize malicious traffic and
avoid common pitfalls that may cause you (or your IDS) to interpret
normal traffic as malicious. The course will not neglect current new
phenomena, and the online Home format will allow us to perform
challenging exercises and demonstrations.

*Security 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling, Ed Skoudis,
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
  http://www.sans.org/athome/details.php?id=1246
The SANSHome version of Security 504 lets you get into far more detail
with our Incident Handling and Hacker Attack course material than you
can at a 6-day classroom event. With several months of review and
analysis time, you can delve deep into the covered concepts, performing
hands-on analysis of dozens of tools and techniques in your own labs at
home with my guidance and advice as your instructor. Then, during the
last two weeks of the course, you can apply these skills to our unique,
hands-on hacker challenge Capture the Flag event, where students hack
into systems dedicated to the class across the Internet. This in-depth
challenge will let you show off your newly acquired skills with attack
tools and help you get into the mindset of the attackers so you can
thwart them when they try to hit your own networks. Finally, as an
instructor, I really enjoy the close relationships that I make with
SANSHome students via e-mail and instant messaging over the several
months of course time. By the end of this fun and rigorous course,
you'll have taken some major strides in becoming a world-class incident
handler!

Three Stay Sharp courses are also currently available through the
SANSHome program:

*Security 351: Computer and Network Security Awareness - Jim Manico,
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
  http://www.sans.org/athome/details.php?id=1313

*Security 450: Defeating Rogue Access Points, James Philput,
Monday, January 23, 2006
  http://www.sans.org/athome/details.php?id=1344

*Management 404: Fundamentals of Information Security Policy, Kevin Fiscus,
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
http://www.sans.org/athome/details.php?id=1345

After completing a SANS course, we encourage all students to pursue GIAC
certification which not only tests your knowledge, but your ability to
use that knowledge within the real world. GIAC certifications are highly
recognized by employers as a benchmark of your skill and expertise. For
more information about GIAC certification, please visit
http://www.giac.org/.

"An amazing networking and educational opportunity! So much information
- usable information, not just academic exercise. I feel better equipped
to do my job," says Andy Vance of Nationwide Financial after
participating in SANS training. Andy's experience demonstrates the SANS
promise - you will be able to use what you learn immediately upon
returning to work. So get your new year off to the right start by
visiting our website today and registering for SANSHome training!

We hope to see you in class!

Kind regards,
Kevin Fiscus
Jim Manico
James Philput
David Rice
Ed Skoudis
Johannes Ullrich
SANSHome Instructors
http://www.sans.org/athome/

P.S. If you know of anyone else that would benefit from this kind of
hands-on, pragmatic training, please feel free to forward this message
on!

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