Cert Week – A Career in Computer Forensics

This interview is from eForensics Magazine.

Interview with Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an incident response professional with over 15 years’ experience in areas like penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his information security career as a cybercrime investigator, he has built on that experience while working as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance.

Please tell us a bit more about yourself. What are your background and current job responsibilities?

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Cert Week – Keyboard Shortcuts

Two weeks ago we discussed the purpose of the Function Keys.  Here is a collection of other keyboard shortcuts using the ALT and CTRL keys.

These keyboard combinations were created in the times before mice and drop-down menus, and are popular with experienced computer users.  Find a few for your own use.  You ...

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Cert Week – Logs

Most cybersecurity certifications focus heavily on the purpose and importance of log files.  Log files are often aggregated and analyzed using tools and appliances such as SIEMs.  Here is an infographic that I think is useful to help understand log files.

 

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Cert Week – Using the DIR Command

This is an example of a Performance Based Question that you might find in an A+ certification exam.  These images a screen captures of the explanation that was given in a practice exam from Boson.  I like the Boson practice exams and recommend them to my students.

Here is the scenario based question

The very first thing you should do ...

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