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Re: Sans GIAC GSEC exam
From: shankarnarayan.d () netsol co in
Date: 25 Nov 2005 06:33:46 -0000
Hi, Completed my GSec in sometime Nov of 2003 so dunno if this is relevant now. Read quite a lot of the articles on SANS reading room. Infact, I was awake every night with a min of 3 - 5 articles for a couple of months with Sat and Sun spending almost 8hours - reading/ running through the references and so on. That's the cheapest way....... Another things that I personally used was Network Security (cant remember the name now) book by Stephen Northcutt and some other authors. Also used the Handbook of Information Security available on the web. Used the security materials available on NIST websites. Security Technets from Microsoft website One horrible thing that happened was I got a lot of questions from Linux and xNIX (UNIX and related OS) for the exam for which I was not prepared and all that helped me were intelligent guesses. One advantage was that I had a little experience in Info-sec when I took the exam - so some previous experiences helped me The other material that I personally used was CISSP materials - (dunno how relevant this is now) for the theory part, discussions and interactions that I had at every opportunity with other colleagues who were also taking SANS. Hope this Helps
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