Re: Training advice

[Brad Judy <Brad.Judy () COLORADO EDU>]

What are your goals and priorities?  There are lots of possible areas of
study and it would be helpful if you gave some more information.  
 
You mentioned snort, which sounds like an interest in network intrusion
detection.  Something like SANS 503 might be good for that.
 
What types of things do you want to work on/learn?  What is the most
important next step for improving security on your campus?
 
System security/hardening
Network security (access control, firewalls, VPNs, wireless sec, etc)
Incident response/forensics
Risk assessment/management
Secure application development
Security policy creation/management
Data security (inventory, controls, monitoring)
Technical/legal interface
 
 
Unfortunately, you're probably too late for this free training option in
Little Rock starting today: http://www.sentinelproject.net/
 
One of our staff took it and found it useful for incident response and
technical/legal interface.  
 
Brad Judy
 
University of Colorado at Boulder


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        From: Vanderbilt, Teresa [mailto:tvanderb () OZARKS EDU] 
        Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:02 PM
        To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
        Subject: [SECURITY] Training advice
        
        

        I recently stepped into the title of Security Manager. We're a
small school and this is a new position for us. I'd only maintained the
servers, switches and firewalls before. I have no one to mentor me and
very little budget for training. I can spend approximately $3-5K on
formal training this year. I was thinking of a good online class so all
the money goes toward training rather than hotels and travel. Until now,
everything I've learned has been mostly on my own; although I recently
attended Pentration Testing Training. What other training, both formal
and informal, would benefit me and my school the most? I've been
thinking of CCNA and I would like to learn how to use Snort since it's
free. Will CCNA be beneficial or should I buy a good beginners book on
Snort. Am I way off the mark for what I need to study? I need to get up
to speed quickly and can't afford to guess at what I need. Please help.

        Thanks in advance, 
        Teresa Vanderbilt 
        University of the Ozarks