Re: SANS 504 Alternatives

["Young, Beth A." <youngba () MORE NET>]

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