Discrete Recovery

I am a big fan of continuing education and have been fortunate to have worked for companies that have provided me with the chance to attend relevant courses and achieve some certifications to supplement my job experience.  Over the last 30+ years, I have taken a decent amount on courses. Over the next few blog entries, I will share some of these experiences. Course material aside, what makes a course go from "good" to excellent is, of course,  the instructor. I have been fortunate to have learned from some of the very best over the years. I only wish I could have been a better pupil. My "career" in IT is all due to a former boss, Lloyd Wiebe, who changed the work schedule around so I could take a 1 year college entry level programming course back in the mid 1980's. After graduating from the course on a Friday, I started teaching it in another town the following Monday...no kidding. That is all it took back in the day. Thank you Lloyd for your kindness. During th...

TRAINING : Awareness, CTI, Cyber Threat Hunting, Practical Ethical Hacking, HoneyPots August is drawing to a close and has been an interesting month for many reasons. I am starting a new job Sept 1st and the other is due to some great training I took. While I finish off   Building Intrusion Detection Honeypots with Chris Sanders (Applied Network Defense) https://www.networkdefense.io/library/building-intrusion-detection-honeypots/about/ Awareness SANS Awareness Summit https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-summit/#agenda The past year or so, SANS has provided a steady stream of excellent free virtual Summits for everyone to enjoy. Appreciated and amazing!   Windows I took Windows Post Exploitation with Kyle Avery and was impressed, Kyle is enthusiastic, highly skilled and explains things at the right level – at least for me ! I know very little about this area and as a blue team defender, I wanted to know a bit more of how some of the magic happens. This is a longer...