SANS Hacker Techniques review

This is an overview post for the series of daily reviews of the SANS Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling course that I have been posting.

You can read the daily posts here:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Days 4 and 5
• Day 6

Overall, I found the course was extremely valuable. A couple of tips:

• Do not miss the final day.
• Bring a powerful laptop that preferably dual boots between Windows and Linux; or else bone up on VMWare configuration.

Summary

• Topics: Incident response procedures, reconnaissance, scanning, exploiting, keeping access, covering tracks
• Overall value: 4 out of 5
• Coolness: 5 out of 5

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