How Secure Are You?

Damian — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:27:03 +0000

Management never seem to think bad things will happen to them here in Australia. Well, here are two incidents that prove that thinking wrong:

Hacker attacks Victorian servers

http://www.zdnet.com.au/hacker-attacks-victorian-servers-339301026.htm

China spies suspected of hacking Julia Gillard’s emails

http://www.news.com.au/technology/federal-ministers-emails-suspected-of-being-hacked/story-e6frfrnr-1226029713668

So anyone connected to the internet is fair game, so the question becomes: How do I stop my company from being the next headline?

Glad you asked…

Enter SANS 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling course

SANS, one of the best known names in the IT security training arena, has a course dedicated to teaching IT staff how to understand what hacker are up and put in place measures to keep the company systems safe. SANS 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling course gives hands-on experience in understanding vulnerabilities and discovering intrusions, and equipping you with a comprehensive incident handling plan.

This course is being offered as a ten week Mentor lead course here in Sydney, this allow the attendees to gain the maximum study benefits while still having personal lives. It starts on the Thursday, June 2, 2011 and running each Thursday until August 4, 2011.

Learn and work through the SANS courseware with Chris Mohan, one of the few SANS’ GSE holders in the world and a handler at the Internet Storm Center, to help make the courseware relevant and of immediate use to you.

With the Australian dollar nearing an all-time high and using the code Mentor10 for an addition 10% off the course, SANS Security training has never been more cost effective and affordable!

And just in case your company doesn’t think taking IT security is important, show your boss even the Australia’s spy agency ASIO gets cyber wing to protect the country. If the country needs protecting don’t you think your company does to?

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/australias-spy-agency-asio-gets-cyber-wing-20110311-1br4g.html

Web App Hacking – SANS Sydney 2009

Damian — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:28:51 +0000

Well my payment is in and I have now officially been confirmed as the facilitator for the “Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking” (what a mouthful) course at this years SANS Sydney event. This year it’s being taught by Johannes Ullrich who is an amazingly knowledgable man in this area and it is the first time it has been run as a 6 day course in Australia so I am really looking forward to it.

There is another interesting track being run in Australia for the first time. “Advanced Security Essentials – Enterprise Defender” being taught by Eric Cole is the next step up from the GSEC (Security Essentials) course. It looks really interesting, and being taught by Eric Cole is sure to be fun.

Kick off is in less than two weeks (9th – 14th Nov) so if you haven’t already booked you’d better hurry.

For those that are going, i’ll see you there!

DamianGrace.com » sydney

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Web App Hacking – SANS Sydney 2009