Do you want to know more?

Want to learn more about memory analysis?

• Install Volatility or grab SIFT VM
• Get memory image samples from:
• Volatility wiki: https://code.google.com/p/volatility/wiki/PublicMemoryImages
• HoneyNet: http://honeynet.org/challenges/2010_3_banking_troubles
• Book:
  
• Practice, practice, practice
• Image your own hosts and analyze them
• Write about what you find out!
  

Want to learn more about (web) application security?

• Install proxy tools and browser plugins or get Samurai WTF
• Get sample vulnerable web apps :
  
• Samurai includes WebGoat, Mutilidae, and others
  
• Google Gruyere: http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/
• BodgeIt Store : http://code.google.com/p/bodgeit/
• Book: The Tangled Web : http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/
  
• Read, participate: OWASP:  https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
  
• Practice, practice, practice
• Test your own apps in the lab
  
• Write about what you find out!

What to learn more about host forensics?

• Get SIFT and FTK Imager (etc)
  
• Get sample images and challenges:
• HoneyNet Challenges: http://honeynet.org/challenges
• EH Net Challenges: https://www.ethicalhacker.net/category/features/skillz
  
• Advanced Digital Corpora: http://digitalcorpora.org/corpora/scenarios
• Book: File System Forensics Analysis: http://www.digital-evidence.org/
  
• Practice, practice, practice
• Image your own hosts and analyze them
  
• Write about what you find out!

Want to learn more about network monitoring, network forensics?

• Get Security Onion and SIFT
  
• Get some sample captures and logs:
• /opt/samples in SecurityOnion
• Wireshark's samples wiki :http://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures
  
• (Network) Forensics Contest . com : http://forensicscontest.com/
• Advanced: Johannes packet challenges:  http://johannes.homepc.org/packet.txt
• Book: Practice of NSM and samples : http://nostarch.com/nsm
  
• Practice, practice, practice
• Record, monitor, analyze your own networks
  
• Write about what you find out!

Want to learn more about artifact analysis and reverse engineering malware?

• Get REMnux and demos of IDA, Hopper. Download OllyDbg
  
• Get some sample files:
• Contagio : http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/
  
• VirusShare : https://virusshare.com/
  
• your inbox
  
•  Book: Practical Malware Analysis and exercises: http://practicalmalwareanalysis.com/
• Practice, practice, practice
• Dissect and analyze the files around you
  
• Write about what you find out!

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• Compete in the DC3 Challenge! http://www.dc3.mil/challenge/
• Compete in a CTF or other challenge!
• InfoSec.SE has a list: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3592/what-hacking-competitions-challenges-exist
• So does Keith : http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~krwatson/ctf.html
  

• Answer questions online.