Re: Instructor Lead Computer Virus Training

Are you familiar with the courses given by Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA? While I do not believe they have a course directed solely at viruses, they do have courses dealing with computer security issues more generally, for example, incident response. Considering the rate at which viruses "evolve", a low-level instructor-led course that gets down to the nitty-gritty technical details of specific, current, examples of malware might be too much to ask for due to the time required to develop the material. See if anything at: http://www.cert.org/nav/index_gold.html is within your domain of interest.

-Scott Miller

                                                                                                                           
                      "Andy Cuff                                                                                           
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                      "Andy Cuff                                                                                           
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Hi
I've had a page on the talisker website for some time attempting to detail every known instructor lead vendor neutral anti virus training course http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk/Cvirus.htm Finding such courses is a nightmare with the amount of medical virus courses
such as West Nile etc. This has been made worse lately with the advent of SARS. I am calling upon the virus gurus for some assistance in recommending
some anti-virus courses, also courses in how to recover from a virus outbreak, what I have so far is:

Internet Worms & Viruses http://www.nsec.net/worms.html

Anti-Virus Workshop
http://www.sophos.co.uk/products/training/uk/practical.html I attended this last year and whilst a little basic, it gives a good well rounded introduction to the threats.

Computer Viruses and Malware
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/599.48/ The ethics of a course that teaches it's students to write malware is debatable but the virus writers are doing a good enough job these days without the training therefore I really cannot see the harm, provided some restrictions are placed on who can attend. The virus writing opposition may
perhaps receive some fresh blood with some innovative ideas on how to counter the threat. Being an advocate as I am of full disclosure and it taking a thief to catch a thief perhaps I'm in the minority.

If I cannot get more than 10 different courses I will include vendor specific courses, as I am currently looking to attend a few myself.

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-andy

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