Certifications

After years of getting their course catalogs in the mail. I was very excited to finally be able to take a SANS course after landing my job in the DFIR field. I love to learn. I even like taking certification exams, but for the first time while studying for a certification (I already had 9 of them), I lost all focus and motivation for a while. I took the FOR500 OnDemand course with Rob Lee as the instructor. He was great! You get 4 months to complete the training and take the exam. The course started on March 20th and...

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the resources I used for certifications and how I study for them. I may be a little ‘extra’ with my resources after failing an exam ten years ago, but I haven’t had to retake an exam since. These are my current certifications in the order taken: 2010 (Feb): CompTIA A+ 2010 (March): CompTIA Network+ 2016 (Dec): CompTIA Security+ 2017 (March): (ISC)2 SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner) 2017 (Aug): CompTIA CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst) 2018 (June): Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops 2018 (Sept): EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) 2019 (July): Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 2019 (Nov):...