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Top Cyber Attacks in 2024???

Rick Butler
Trevor Chandler said:
Being the respected member that you are of this community Mr. Butler, I do thank you for your input!!!
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Well, it's what I do.

We get a lot of DDoS attacks so we have to use ongoing (and expensive) DDoS protection that lights up when we start getting beat on. Sadly, mitigation services become a cost of doing business.
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A Trip Down Instructor Memory Lane

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Steve Linthicum said:
Recent postings relating to changes at CompTIA had me thinking about the great days of the late '90s and early 2000s. I recall with fondness Microsoft's AATP program. Googling the program, I found a useful history of the program, well worth reading. Back in the good old days, many of us in the academic world sought that Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) designation, with access to free exam vouchers and no charge for gaining the MCT designation. The cool thing was that for those of us who held the MCT designation, we were grandfathered, gaining the CompTIA CTT designation without taking a written exam or providing a teaching demonstration.

Things changed and at some point Microsoft started charging an annual fee in order to retain the MCT designation. That is when I decided to no longer carry that designation. My recollection was the fee was $500. Research indicates that "The MCT Program Fee was waived in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This waiver to the standard MCT annual fee remains in effect." Some of you may want to consider joining up to spice up your resume, given the cost elimination.

This of course has me thinking about the CTT+ designation that is, at least from what I've been able to find, no longer available (based on this posting on CIN).
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Thanks for sharing this, Steve. I too used to have the MCT cert until i got tired of paying that fee around 2008 or 2009. My memory for some reason is fixated on a $450 fee. I loved the resources we had access too at the time, especially with my MCAD .Net cert.

It's great to hear that the fee has been waived, I wonder how easy it will be to re-activate that cert, without having to jump through many hoops. I am at the point in my life where I only take the path of least resistance.

Best,
-Moez
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Cybersecurity Terms

Trevor Chandler
Hello CINners,

When I'm listening to presentations at cybersecurity events,
there are some common terms that are used, such as:
- vulnerability
- threat
- attack surface
- attach vector

Just to name a very few.

Can you define these terms without having to launch your favorite
search engine? Do you have a definition in your brain, that would
allow you to articulate to the someone, what the term means?

I'd like to have you define one (or all) of the terms that I have listed,
based on your understanding. Just imagine that you're in conversation
with someone, and you spit out one of those terms, and the other
person ask you to define the term.

Now if you're going to lookup the term(s) using some search engine,
or dig into some book, and then pass that on to me, don't waste that
bandwidth :)
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On steering students' learning

Rick Butler
Gregory Childers said:
I've finally gotten better at self-analysis. I read the exam objectives and immediately know which topics I know and which ones I don't. Then I go study the topics I don't know. It made it a lot easier when I was studying for my CISSP. I only studied for a week and passed on the first attempt.
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I keep thinking I need to do that with the tests I take...but I never want to underestimate them...so I end up taking weeks to study, even going over topics I've read time and again.
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A Trip Down Instructor Memory Lane

Tess Sluijter
They offer training that includes hands-on lab activities that must be completed to achieve the certificate.
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With SANS, you don't have to complete anything for the certificate of completion.

For the certification exam, sure, you have to tackle as much as you can... but you will simply get the cert of completion at the end of the week, as far as I know. ... Reminds me, I should still grab mine for LDR521.
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A Trip Down Instructor Memory Lane

BrianFord
Steve Linthicum said:
Recent postings relating to changes at CompTIA had me thinking about the great days of the late '90s and early 2000s. I recall with fondness Microsoft's AATP program. Googling the program, I found a useful history of the program, well worth reading. Back in the good old days, many of us in the academic world sought that Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) designation, with access to free exam vouchers and no charge for gaining the MCT designation. The cool thing was that for those of us who held the MCT designation, we were grandfathered, gaining the CompTIA CTT designation without taking a written exam or providing a teaching demonstration.

Things changed and at some point Microsoft started charging an annual fee in order to retain the MCT designation. That is when I decided to no longer carry that designation. My recollection was the fee was $500. Research indicates that "The MCT Program Fee was waived in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This waiver to the standard MCT annual fee remains in effect." Some of you may want to consider joining up to spice up your resume, given the cost elimination.

This of course has me thinking about the CTT+ designation that is, at least from what I've been able to find, no longer available (based on this posting on CIN).
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The stories I could tell about the 1980s and 90s Novell Certified Netware Instructor (CNI) program! If you were a CNI, you had a 'batting average' based on the surveys that students completed at the end of a class. Those students always completed those surveys because if they didn't, they would not receive a completion certificate. The Novell CNE practical lab class (701) was 5 days long and very hands-on. Students who took 701 and completed all the labs were prepared well for the corresponding Novell Certified Netware Engineer (CNE) exam (offered at Drake testing centers). That week-long 701 class was our 'boot camp'. I would start class at 9 AM and go until 7 or 8 PM Tuesday through Thursday so that students could repeat lab exercises.

I believe that's what many of the new certificate programs, such as ACE-T, BLT1, and even the SANS GIAC programs, are doing. They offer training that includes hands-on lab activities that must be completed to achieve the certificate.
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A Trip Down Instructor Memory Lane

Tess Sluijter
Mark Anthony French said:
The publisher Logical Operations offers the MCCT.
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Yeah, we discussed that earlier in another thread.

It is in no way or shape or form comparable to CTT+ :)
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