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Re: SANS 504 Alternatives
From: "Young, Beth A." <youngba () MORE NET>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:40:54 -0500
Why back when, I took a Foundstone hacking course and loved it. They have changed their courses some since I took their "Hand on Hacking" class - it looks like they have expanded the offerings and add classes. Their prices are comparable to SANS so it isn't going to save you any money but they are an alternative. If I had to compare the SANS 504 and the Foundstone ultimate hacking class - Foundstone seems to focus more on tools and will cover more tools but with SANS, you get the incident response information at the expense of the tools information. I learned a lot from both classes so I don't really have a preference. You should also keep an eye on the SANS Partnership page http://www.sans.org/partnership/ Someday, one of the Universities might offer it at the SANS@EDU prices (about a 1/3 of the cost). Unfortunately, the SANS@EDU program seems to have hit a major stumbling block because not many of these are being offered anymore. Beth
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Anand S Malwade Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:34 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SANS 504 Alternatives I have feedback from others that Foundstone's Ultimate hacking courses are good as well. Some of the current SANS instructors have taught those as well. http://www.foundstone.com/us/education-coursesdescription-ultimate- hacking.asp Anand -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Pratt, Benjamin E. Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:30 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] SANS 504 Alternatives Hello everyone, I am trying to convince my boss to let me go to a SANS 504 Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling course but, in this economy, he's concerned about cost. I told him that SANS is the best training out there but he wants me to find the cost of similar training from other vendors, if it's out there. Does anyone know of similar courses from other companies? Thanks, Ben
Current thread:
- SANS 504 Alternatives Pratt, Benjamin E. (Oct 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives Guy Pace (Oct 22)
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives Anand S Malwade (Oct 22)
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives Dave Koontz (Oct 22)
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives Hart, Lee Anne (Oct 22)
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives Young, Beth A. (Oct 22)
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives randy marchany (Oct 22)
- Re: SANS 504 Alternatives Christopher Jones (Oct 22)