[Intrusions] [OT] SANS local mentor for track 3 - experience/suggestions?!?

[David J. Bianco]

I'm a SANS Local Mentor for Tracks 1 (GSEC) and 4 (GCIH), and I can highly
recommend the Local Mentor sessions.  When you take one of these classes,
you get online access to the courseware materials (ie, the textbooks) and
MP3 files of the lectures themselves.  Your mentor will tell you which
sections to read before the meeting each week, and then you show up prepared
to ask questions or work through whatever exercises the mentor has prepared.

The most important thing is that you look at the mentor sessions as more
of a study group, and not as instructional time.  The mentors are not
instructors, and the 2 hour meeting time isn't nearly enough to teach
all of the material for the week.  If you can do the reading beforehand,
you'll get a lot of out of it.

Also, on a related note, I find that the mentor sessions have one
advantage the SANS conferences don't: you get to network with the other
security people in your local area, which can be invaluable sometimes.

	David

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David J. Bianco, GSEC GCUX GCIH		<bianco at jlab.org>
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