RE: OSSTM Training/Certification

From: eohlson@hushmail.com
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 14:18:21 EDT


I also attended the OPSA course at Black Hat and found it a good use
of my time and budget. After speaking with other Black Hat Training
attendees during lunches, many of whom seemed unhappy with the other
course offerings, I felt that I made a good choice at least with regards
to that particular conference.

In general I felt it was more geared towards consultants than internal
testers, and wish it would have been available a few years ago when I
was consulting. This is the course that those of you who manage a professional
services group wish that your consultants had. Very business oriented
and complementary to technical skills, although technical enough for
anyone inexperienced with pen-testing.

I think that the material will prove very useful as I perform "internal
consulting" to the technical teams and managment at my company.

Overall I felt that the course description did a good job of setting
my expectations for the material presented, and I wasn't disappointed.

-E

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nicole Nicholson [mailto:nanicholson@hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: OSSTM Training/Certification
>>
>> I just got finished taking the OSSTM Professional Security Analyst
>(OPSA)
>> class here at Black Hat in Vegas. Don't waste your money. The
>instructor
>> admiited that it was the first time the course was offered in
>the US,
>and
>> still needed some work.
>

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 18:40:58 -0700 "Robert E. Lee" <robert@dyadsecurity.com>
wrote:
>
>Overall, I believe the course was well received and liked by the
>students as evidenced by the reviews of the course. Perhaps another
>less "shy" student will chime in when they get back to their respective
>offices. Until then, please take this one review with a huge grain
>of
>salt :).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Robert
>
>Robert E. Lee
>CTO

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