Education

[Xeno Kovah <xsk.dailydave () gmail com>]

If you're someone who already has a reasonable grasp of reverse engineering
and malware analysis, I need your help. I need you to help train more
people like yourself.


More likely than not you're "self-taught". Except, when you were teaching
yourself you were probably actually relying in large part on the help of
others. They freely posted zines, articles, and blog entries. They and
answered questions in forums, email lists, and in person. Eventually, once
you were confident enough to believe you would be right more often than
wrong, you might have tried to pay it forward and share your knowledge back
to others.


If so, you're the type of person who is needed. We need people who want to
make an impact by more rapidly helping educate those who want to learn. We
all know that things like certifications and most college curriculums set a
fairly low bar for the expectation of what people should know for security.
Certainly in the area of reverse engineering there is almost nothing. Paid
training classes can be good, but the cost can prevent people from getting
all the training they really need.


I believe what's needed are many more people teaching trainings in person,
while encouraging their top students to eventually also become instructors.
This brings down costs, provides a well-structured learning environment
with instant feedback, and results in the education of many more people. If
you're a person who already knows the material, becoming an instructor
should be a snap. All you need are class materials, and a venue. Finding
venues is up to the instructors, but now there is a place that lesson plans
and class materials can be stored:


www.OpenSecurityTraining.info


This site is meant to act as a repository for class material that have been
used in computer security classes at least a day long. The material must be
released under an open license to allow the most possible instructors to
utilize and adapt the material. It can then be used by new instructors
as-is, or piecemeal to enhance or speed the creation of other classes. I
didn't want to widely promote the site until we had enough seed content,
and now I think we're there.


But we need more content, and more instructors. If you have classes on any
security subject that you currently or have previously taught, and you
would like others to use the material, please consider contributing it. And
if you're one of the people who already knows a great deal of the material
currently posted there, please start thinking about how you could take the
material and start teaching others in person, at your job, at conferences,
or elsewhere. For more about why you should contribute, and why you should
teach, please read this page: www.OpenSecurityTraining.info/Why.html. Or
jump straight to the material at www.OpenSecurityTraining.info/Training.html
.


Thanks


Xeno

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