Join Andrew Hay for the SANS@Home SEC401R review/preparation session for the GIAC Security Essentials certification exams. This six session review course will allow GSEC candidates to prepare to pass the GSEC exam. Each session focuses on a particular book of the Security 401: SANS Security Essentials material. Class format is to review GSEC practice exam questions and answers to make sure that students understand the material covered in each book.

Covering Exam 1
Thursday, November 1st, 2007 – Book 401.1, Day 1
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 – Book 401.2, Day 2
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 – Book 401.3, Day 3

Covering Exam 2
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 – Book 401.4, Day 4
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 – Book 401.5, Day 5
Thursday, December 13, 2007 – Book 401.6, Day 6

Hey everyone. It turns out that Q1 Labs QRadar has been nominated for a SC Magazine Trust Award in the “Best Event Management Solution (Covers SIM/SEM Solutions)” category. I encourage you to vote for our product since we have all, myself included, given a lot of ourselves to this great product!

More information about QRadar can be found here and click here to vote for QRadar.

Finalists in the Reader Trust Awards will be announced in December. The Winners will be announced at the SC Magazine Awards ceremony and gala dinner at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on April 8, 2008.

Well I’ve eluded to it over the past couple of months and everything is now final. I will be co-authoring the Syngress book “OSSEC Host-based Intrusion Detection” with Daniel Cid and Rory Bray. Look for it in stores in February 2008 and buy as many copies as you can 🙂

About the book:

Since it’s launch in October of 2003, OSSEC has gained momentum to the tune of 10,000 downloads per month from every part of the globe. Commercial host-based intrusion detection solutions range from $60 to as high as thousands of dollars. As there is no free host-based intrusion detection solution that can match the functionality, scalability, and ease of use of OSSEC it stands in a class by itself.

This book is the definitive guide on the OSSEC Host-based Intrusion Detection system. Documentation has been available since the start of the OSSEC project but, due to time constraints, no formal book has been created to outline the various features and functions of the OSSEC product. This has left very important and powerful features of the product undocumented…until now! This book will show you how to install and configure OSSEC on the operating system of your choosing and provide detailed examples to help you prevent and mitigate attacks on your systems.

Included with the book is a DVD containing the latest OSSEC software for Windows and Linux/Unix, a pre-configured VMWare image with OSSEC already installed, and a step-by-step video detailing how to get OSSEC up-and-running on your own system.