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

[Stef]

Thank you for your kind answer. I am not a newcomer - myself - to SANS
(I actually hold two of their certifications), but I got the exams all
at once, after a week at the conference, not attending a long-term
session like the mentoring program. Your point about networking with
people in the area is very well taken, though.

Thx again,
Stef

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:56:46 -0400, David J. Bianco <bianco at jlab.org> wrote:
> 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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