Tips for Passing SANS GIAC Exams (aka GIAC Exam Review)

By YGN Ethical Hacker Group -
  1. Read coursebook at least 3 times. Undoubtedly understand each and every concept.
  2. Practically test and be skilful in executing recommended tools and techniques in various scenarios and switches.  Undoubtedly understand the purpose, practical usage and output of each tool and techniques.  There's no need to memorize switches. Practical understanding is different from memorization. 
  3. Being open-book doesn't mean it's extremely theoretical. You won't literally have a lot of time to open book to seek answers.  Thorough understanding of coursebook is required.   Roughly only round 30% from coursebook might be encountered.  The rest were from case studies that make you derive answers based on given situations/screenshots. 
  4. Subscribe NetWars access that save you time from troubleshooting with never-tried-before tools and making things work as per course book; hence it lets you absorb materials faster.  From there, you can set up tools in your wide array of VMs/test laptops.  There could be configuration changes/running procedures changes/ with those latest new tools - That will delay your time in completion of each learning section. 
  5. For extremely busy individuals, it's best to purchase on-demand training than physical training.  On-demand training allows you to better absorb materials at your own pace, let you research, try your own testing.  The only drawback is being slow if you get distracted among daily tasks/your own schedules/being lazy/doing other areas of security stuffs.
  6. Practice exams offered by SANS are only for look-and-feel of exam simulator. They are incredibly and incomparably easier than the actual exam. Don't let it fool you.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

XSS: Gaining access to HttpOnly Cookie in 2012

By YGN Ethical Hacker Group -
Image
Update 2016/02: We were asked by a lot if this still works.  Shortly after our disclosure, this issue has been patched. ------ The Background - The Past Gaining access to  HttpOnly cookie  was first attempted by means of XST,  Cross Site Tracing  vulnerability. Soon after the popularity of XST, the TRACE method has been disabled by most web servers.  Later, browsers' implementation of XMLHttpRequest also blocked "TRACE" method (i.e.  xmlhttp.open('TRACE', url, true) ].  Later,  a flawed implementation in Firefox's  XMLHttpRequest which can be used to access set-cookie response header was fixed.   JS Debugger pointing out "TRACE" method as invalid arugment   JS Debugger pointing out "TRACE" method as illegal value A Sla.ckers.org forum member, LeverOne, posted ways to access HttpOnly cookie through the use of Java API and applet.  I reproduced his techniques. When the first method was tried, the Java Runtime did no
Read more

Jumping out of Touch Screen Kiosks

By YGN Ethical Hacker Group -
Image
Background: Nowadays, the use of large touch screen kiosks has been prevalent.  They are to replace tradition paper-based brochures and to provide more interactive means to consumers. In restaurants, you can see a variety of food menu that can be accessible in large touch screen LCD monitor.  In your local Telcos, you can see a variety of mobile and Internet subscriptions plans.   Behind these touch screen menus are running standalone or browser-mode Adobe Flash applications which are second-to-none for interactivity and scalablity and ease of update. Data could be pulled from somewhere round their centralized web severs. Weakness: Jumping out We cannot use  iKat  at first as we do not have access to any keyboard facility. However, the trick is no-brainer. Do long press on any locations and relieve.  You should see the usual Flash context menu like: Touch "Global Settings".  A web browser window will pop up and redirect to the Adobe URL,  http://www.macromedia.c
Read more