Incident Response

Training, Conferences, and Certification Programs

As a whole, the information security community of professionals is quite open and self-supportive. Many superb not-for-profit training programs exist that offer a tremendous value for the money spent. In addition, there are several commercial training programs that can provide valuable sources of training for you or your incident response team’s staff. The following is a list of many of the high-value training and certification programs available:

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), http://www.first.org

FIRST holds annual conferences that usually contain several introductory as well as technical tutorials on current topics in incident response. Additionally, it holds biannual technical colloquia for its member teams, in which highly technical attack profile and other useful information is exchanged among members.

CERT/CC, http://www.cert.org

Along with being one of the first organized incident response teams in existence, the CERT/CC also offers numerous training seminars and tutorials annually.

Foundstone, http://www.foundstone.com

With a specialty of security training seminars, Foundstone can be a useful source for training of your staff.

Systems Administration and Network Security (SANS) , http://www.sans.org

Along with excellent quality security training forums held at various times throughout the year in numerous different locations, SANS offers a certification program through its Global Incident ...