Re: Sans GIAC GSEC exam

Hi,

Completed my GSec in sometime Nov of 2003 so dunno if this is relevant now. 

Read quite a lot of the articles on SANS reading room. Infact, I was awake 
every night with a min of 3 - 5 articles for a couple of months with Sat and 
Sun spending almost 8hours - reading/ running through the references and so on. 
That's the cheapest way.......

Another things that I personally used was Network Security (cant remember the 
name now) book by Stephen Northcutt and some other authors. 

Also used the Handbook of Information Security available on the web. Used the 
security materials available on NIST websites. Security Technets from Microsoft 
website

One horrible thing that happened was I got a lot of questions from Linux and 
xNIX (UNIX and related OS) for the exam for which I was not prepared and all 
that helped me were intelligent guesses. One advantage was that I had a little 
experience in Info-sec when I took the exam - so some previous experiences 
helped me

The other material that I personally used was CISSP materials - (dunno how 
relevant this is now) for the theory part, discussions and interactions that I 
had at every opportunity with other colleagues who were also taking SANS.

Hope this Helps