A thread that has gotten some attention and even sparked some bloggers to tag each other with their own stories, I thought I'd post my own "how I got started." I'm twenty years old and my area of study since I graduated high school has been network [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in
School,
Security and
Work.
I was tired today.. maybe it was the material, or the fact that I had to break my college routine and wake up early in the morning... but I was beat. Regarding the IEM, the material could be a little better. Some of the tools that were mentioned are not [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, January 18, 2007 in
School and
Security.
This semester, I am taking the IEM as part of a class that will be assigned to evaluate my university's network security. Last semester, I was a team leader in an IAM, an assessment of my school's organizational information security. The IAM is two full [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, January 18, 2007 in
School and
Security.
Happy New Year everyone! I had a great night with my friends and a lot of unneeded drama, but oh well. I'm disappointed I wasn't able to snag ShmooCon tickets for $75; they sold out in under three minutes! I'm still organizing a trip with several other [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, January 1, 2007 in
News,
School and
Security.
Following everyone else and their "Security Predictions of 2007," I have some predictions of my own: I will be graduating in August with a Bachelor's Degree I will be looking for an entry-level position in security These are two predictions that I am [...]
Posted by Marcin on Saturday, December 23, 2006 in
School and
Security.
It's been a couple days since I attended day two of the IAM training, but I've been a little busy taking that information and preparing for our class' assessment of the school. On day two, we went over modules 3 and 4 (available at the IATRP website, for [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, September 15, 2006 in
School and
Security.
The IAM training has been going pretty well, even though it was just the first day. Today, the class went over the intital contact and pre-assessment phases. We defined the mission of our example organization (our customer) and identified points of [...]
Posted by Marcin on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 in
School and
Security.
This Tuesday and Wednesday I'll be attending a training session (held at my school) on the NSA's Infosec Assessment Methodology taught by Russ Rogers and Greg Miles of Security Horizon. The IAM is a vunerability assessment of an organization's security [...]
Posted by Marcin on Sunday, September 10, 2006 in
School and
Security.
I've enrolled in the following classes this coming Fall semester (summer just went by too quick), and would like to hear your input on them. I'm including the professor's names in addition, since one class with different instructors is never the same. [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, August 28, 2006 in
School.
