GIAC GXPN Review – SANS SEC660 (Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking) Intro SANS is a well respected and premier cyber security training company that employs industry experts as instructors. GIAC is a company that produces testing to validate the skills of security professionals. GIAC exams validate the learning outcomes of the SANS courses. Prerequisites Before attempting this course you should be familiar with penetration testing as this is an advanced course. I would say that you should also be familiar with assembly language and shellcoding. It would be best if you have studied basic stack overflow exploits prior to this course. You will need a basic understanding of programming in C or C++ (preferably both). Scripting using Python would be a useful prerequisite. If you could learn a bit of Ruby scripting it would help for the Metasploit module creation. Be familiar with various routing and networking protocols. Course Coverage This course covers ma
Cryptic thoughts, analysis of code, assembler projects, information security topics