Sounds very good to me!
Jamie
tvdavis…
Have you said anything to Eoghan Casey about the issue with getting the copies of the journal that you paid for? He's the editor at large or something like that, and may be able to sort out any issues.
Re your question about writing about certs…all I can offer is that I don't necessarily believe in them. They do have their usefulness, but as an emergency responder, I usually get called on-site where the IT staff has a good handful of certs already.
I can't offer much on the legal side, but I have written a number of hands-on howto style articles already.
Harlan
Re. the usefulness of certs it might be actually useful to run an article on the negative aspects of certification. I'm sure most people would agree that certs and qualifications have at least some value but throwing up some kind of "aunt sally" to argue that they're a waste of time or money might be a good counterbalance to the pro-certification marketing out there. If it makes people stop and think before making a decision it will have done it's job (it might also be fun to write!)
If anyone's interested in putting something like that together, or indeed submitting any other articles, just drop me a line. Harlan, if you'd like to add any of your "howtos" I'm sure they'd be very well received.
Jamie
Regarding certs…well, all I can say is that I've seen and talked to SANS GCIH certified folks who talked the talk, but when it came to actually responding to an incident, they opened the Event Viewer, used the PrntScrn key to capture the entire desktop, and saved the capture to hard drive as a .bmp file (via PaintBrush).
I passed the CISSP exam in '99. Since then, the only use it's had for me is to get my resume past recruiters…HR folks who look for certain key words. When I let my cert lapse, ISC^2 came back after me and told me I could get it back by paying a $100 re-init fee.
Re HowTos…I'll see what I can pull together. I'm working on my book now, but maybe pulling some stuff out would make a good article.
Regarding certs…well, all I can say is that I've seen and talked to SANS GCIH certified folks who talked the talk, but when it came to actually responding to an incident, they opened the Event Viewer, used the PrntScrn key to capture the entire desktop, and saved the capture to hard drive as a .bmp file (via PaintBrush).
And you do a disservice to those of us that are GCIH certified here. Of course there are going to be bad apples, you will find them everywhere, with any cert. I can tell you that they didn't follow the procedures found on the GCIH training. If it is as you say. roll
Hey all,
Sorry to dig up this old thread, but I was reading the new issue of Productive Magazine (I'm into the whole GTD thing) and was thinking about the lack of a magazine for our industry. I subscribe to Forensic Magazine but that's more of a general publication.
I was wondering what people thought about this now. Is it something that would be worthwhile to look at? I was thinking more of an online/PDF publication, not an actual print magazine. But it just seems like there would be enough material to make it worthwhile in this industry.
I was thinking about looking into starting one up, but I don't have a background in print, so it would probably be a rough start (although I know the guy who does the Perl Journal so I could probably bounce some questions off of him p).
Is it something that people think is needed? Or are sites like Forensic Focus good enough for what we need?
Thanks,
Tom
Personally, I'd love to see a print magazine and would be willing to pay a premium price if there was one on the market (note "premium", not "ridiculous" as is the case with one or two existing publications!) I think the real draw for me would actually be the physical format - I get tired of reading everything off a screen - but if there was an easily printable PDF I'd probably consider that.
Jamie