Security School with Ed Skoudis and SANS

Dan Verton sat in a SANS Institute class taught by Ed Skoudis recently and wrote this interesting article for Computerworld.

I know Ed, not well enough to call him an old friend, but we've met several times and I've had the pleasure to see him teach. He's good, extremely good. He has what too few fellow geeks have: a great stage presence, sense of humor, and perspective. These combined with his obvious depth of knowledge and hands-on experience make him of the best teachers on security topics around. He'd probably make a decent standup comedian as well if he was interested :)

SANS deserves credit as well for having a great set of Security Classes. Intense, in depth, and full of practical knowledge, just like Ed. Most of their classes are 6 days, run over the weekend, several include night time "boot camp" sessions, and none of the students complain! The material are not the regular class materials most of us are familiar with: it would be more accurate to say that each class' materials are the equivalent of several text books and are excellent ongoing references. (ship them home if you can - they're heavy. I'm estimating that Security Essentials alone is a 8 inch/25 pound stack of books!).

Disclaimer: I occasionally teach SANS classes and they occasionally pay me.