On Thursday I attended a Sec-1 Applied Hacking & Intrusion Prevention course. It was a very broad 1 day course providing a taster of all the common security threats affecting most businesses, kudos to our instructor/lecturer, he really knew his stuff.
There are some ‘hands on’ lab sessions where we got to have a go at using exploits and tools to ‘hack’ an outdated Windows 2000 Server machine. Unfortunately, at the end of the course I couldn’t help but feel it wasn’t quite worth what it cost for me to attend (> £100/hr).
It opens your eyes to the ease with which you can penetrate an unpatched machine. It also demonstrated how knowledgeable (and bored?) elite black hat hackers must be to find these exploits in the first place.
I’ve always hated the term hacking, the word instantly reminds me of the glamourised and inaccurate image movies always portray – which couldn’t be further from the truth. Real life hacking for anyone but your immature adolescent / hardcore socially inept nerd is arduous and boring.
Why am I attending such courses? Well the company I work for want to move into DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service. Can’t say I’m comfortable with this decision given the companies combined security knowledge; mine included.
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