Speaking of amazing teacher opportunities, Richard Bejtlich, formerly of Foundstone and well known for his network security blog, is offering a training class on using the cornucopia of open source security tools for network security monitoring. There are a tremendous number of tools now available in this space which makes keeping up with them tricky. Having someone like Bejtlich tell you which ones to pay attention to and how to best use them is a superb jumpstart.

More info on the training class here. Register for the conference and this class here.

I know that I break out Ethereal at the first sign of trouble on my network. I’ve used it to deal with security issues, client-server problems, and all sorts of other hairy situations. Though I’ve gotten pretty facile with it over the years through sheer trial-and-error, I’ve always wondered just how much more effective I’d be if I had someone who really knew what she or he was doing showing me the ropes.

Now you have the chance. Gerry Carter, one of the hardest working people in the training biz, is teaching a class on just this subject (Ethereal and the Art of Debugging Networks). He’s been a core member of the Samba team (who know more than anyone should have to know about protocols on a wire) and a LDAP/Kerberos guru so he has tremendous Ethereal chops.

More information on the training class here. Register for the conference and this class here.