Articles on Training

• Career Are Anxious People More Vigilant in Information Security?
  Research suggests nonanxious individuals may detect early warning signs of trouble better than anxious people, whose brains leap into action only after threats reach an obvious threshold. Calm...
• Cheat Sheets How to Suck at Information Security - A Cheat Sheet
  A tongue-in-cheek collection of common security mistakes to avoid: deploying products without tuning them, treating all assets with equal rigor regardless of risk, locking down infrastructure so...
• Training My Favorite Information Security Authors in the Past Year
• Malware Using Netsh for Easier Network Setup in a Malware Lab
  Windows' netsh tool can save and restore network configurations, useful for malware analysis labs that frequently switch between isolated segments and Internet-connected networks. Save configurations...
• Malware The Dark Side of Remote Desktop
  The Morto worm spread by scanning for RDP on port 3389 and brute-forcing Administrator passwords using common credentials. Tools like TSGrinder and Ncrack automate RDP password attacks. Mitigations...
• Incident Response How to Get into Digital Forensics or Security Incident Response
  Employers rarely invest in growing beginner forensics analysts, so individuals must build relevant skills within current roles. System admins can learn incident investigation tools, network admins...