Re: CEH Course - Your thoughts?

[Robert Hudock <rhudock () gmail com>]

J5,

The test is really easy, you likely do not need a course.  Get the
review guide and practice questions (print-ables versions from a vendor
whose address is found on the EU Council website).  I would recommend
taking a course taught by instructors taught at BlackHat.  In
particular, I would recommend the combat hacking class by SensePost and
Chris Eagle's Reverse Engineering course.

You do not need the course to qualify to take the test -- if you can
meet some basic requirements.

Regards, Robert



On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:54 -0400, J5 wrote:
> I will be rounding up my first year as a security analyst soon and my
> company has offered to send me to a CEH course taught by Dan Garfield
> and it is held by IT Training Solutions.  This is the new v6 course.
>
> I feel very comfortable with locating vulnerabilities on the network
> and exploitation methodologies.  I do penetration testing on my job,
> but it is a very small part of my daily activities. I see many tools
> listed in the description that I just haven't had the time to go hands
> on with.... and some I use extensively.
>
> I would like to ask anyone who has attended one of these 5 day courses
> to reply with their experiences.  I am looking for a lab based
> environment to experiment with tools I haven't had the opportunity to
> use.  I am already ingrained with CIA, AAA & management aspects of
> infosec as well as the 'anatomy of an attack.'  I want to get to the
> nitty gritty and not have the same vague overview I get all the time.
> I really want to spend a solid week focusing on improving my toolkit.
>
> Do you feel like this course would be beneficial to me or should I
> hold off for something else.  (SANS, Foundstone, etc)
-- 
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