I have the priviledgee of working for a corporation that has a very active and very good IT Security department. I am not part of it but I work with *nix and Windows Security almost on a daily basis.

Anyway I recently attended the SANS Network Security conference in Las Vegas, specifically course 506: Hardening Unix/Linux. It was a very good conference overall even though the general “knowledge level” of a lot of atendees was very low to non existent.

After I got back I was asked to make up a short presentation and share the experience with some of my colleagues. I honestly can HIGHLY recommend doing this in your company. A lot of people see a training course as a way of getting training for themselves and then applying that training at work. WRONG APPROACH! If you share at least the rough edges about what you learned, other people might get interested and read up on it themselves and then you become a mentor or coach. Before you know it you have 2 experts which eliminates the “single point of failure” in case something happens to you.

Besides if you discuss what was taught (to some extend) and think you have new ideas, before yous tart investigating them someone might have done some groundwork already for it or it was found to be not feasable.

Therefore, as much as I hate to be patronizing: SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE!!!

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