I am on a mission to breathe new life into the way courses are handled. I am so done with the boring bland course experience that is nothing like what you wanted from it. A lot of these courses will tell you to sit down and to do the work and you will succeed … and then proceed to give you about 10 minutes worth of exercises in total. This is one of my worst nightmares, i never want to wake up to one of my students telling me my courses were just bland copy and paste work, not for them saying it but fear of me having failed one of the amazing hackers that supports me so often!
I am not going to keep writing without purpose anymore but I did feel inclined to write a small introduction to one of the biggest works I have ever produced. Without any more words my friends, I hope you enjoy. :)
In this course you will find several topics all divided into chapters. We are going to break down all the chapters as much as possible for you and try to keep the chunks small. This will allow you to put in 10 minutes of course work on your bus ride home or 15 minutes when the kid is having a nap. It will also allow you to skip chunks if you know them already.
You can take these chunks in a massive sitting or in several as you prefer, I recommend more than one sitting though as i will give you enough to do.
I recommend that you properly plan time for this. If you want to fully go from 0 to full knowledge about the topics in this course you can easily lose over 150 hours and even 300 is something you should not be ashamed of admitting, we all have our own pace of life and learning.
This course will take about x hours per level of knowledge:
Well known with IT and generally known with infosec topics: About 100-150 hours
Well known with IT and not known with infosec topics: About 150-200 hours
Reasonable well known with IT and not known with infosec topics: About 250-300 hours
Not known with IT and not known with infosec topics: About 300-400 hours
Taking this time into consideration, try to set yourself a date for when you want to finish and fit a training schedule onto there. The other option you have is to fit your training schedule to these amounts of hours and simply see how many days or it may take you.
As a general indication, I am a fast learner with good IT exposure and I was little known with hacking topics. I did about 100 hours of training to learn for one part of this course and easily over 100 on the other. I usually study new things at least 3 days a week for a few months a year. The rest is spent applying what I learned which is why I hope that you bought this course and are able to apply it soon. I am a firm believer of the philosophy that knowledge that is not being used is knowledge that is wasted.might as well not be gained in the first place. The only way experts are good is by making mistakes and applying what they learn.
Now that we have the time aspect out of the way we need to talk about disturbances. This probably won’t work in a living room where your dog is smoking a cigar next to your baby playing with knives while on a unicycle. The other way this course won’t work is if you spend the time you should be studying while you are doing other things, Of course you need your relaxation but i’m also a firm believer that humans need to strive for eternal learning.
Now that we talked about all the ways this course won’t work for you, i’d like to reiterate that if you: