It appears you are forced into the lower tracks if you seek to get their
ultimate certification though. I guess kinda like going to college for a
degree, you have to take all the courses leading up to the finals.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Lang wrote:
> I went to the one in florida at the beginning of the year and was very
> unimpressed with it compared to the various usenix confrences. It costs
> quite a bit more, and the classes seemed much to basic (the final straw
> was the class showing what tools script kiddies have and how they work
> that spent 15 min on winnuke, 5+ on showing the different GUIs that it has
> sported, why in the world would any security person care what the GUI
> looks like, let alone the 5-10 different version of the GUI it has had)
>
> I did luck out and found a couple classes that were worthwhile. If you get
> the advanced classes they can be useful, but if you make the mistake of
> taking an entire track or one of the lower classes you should save your
> money.
>
> David Lang
>
>
> On
> Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:59:48 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Paul D. Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Jeff Deitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: Kathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: SANS hype and auto-fix virus
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jeff Deitz wrote:
> >
> > > Just my experience with SANS. I did attend one SANS conference a couple of
> > > years back on intrusion detection and thought that it was great, but it now
> > > seems they are now trying to teach more of the basics, geared towards their
> > > certification program, then advance or in-depth knowledge on the subjects.
> >
> > It's been a couple of years since I went to one also, so it may be that
> > it's changed for the worst. Some people I know went to the last one in DC
> > and found it to be very good though. AFAIK all they picked was the
> > advanced stuff.
> >
> > Paul
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