Fall Topics Poll & Getting Started

Topic Poll
We talked a bit about topics we would like to cover this fall during the first meeting. Ideas about reversing, pentesting, forensics and more were discussed. As a result, I've created a poll to better quantify the interest level in the different areas.

Getting Started
One item I want to go into detail about is the "Don't know...I'm a n00b!" choice. Several students mentioned during and after the meeting that they are new to the security scene and don't know where to start. Great! That's why the SIT was created! The question now comes down to how much of the regular meeting time do we want to focus on getting started as opposed to more intermediate to advanced topics?

Maybe that's where the idea I've been having about doing a weekly meetup in addition to the regular meeting could come into play. If we could coordinate a weekly session with a floating time that works for my schedule and all those interested where we could cover the basics and I could provide some small assignments to help you get your feet wet. The assignments would be things like compile nmap from source and scan host X, then tell me the open ports and possible OS.

I'll probably do another poll to start hashing out the details of what we'll do regarding the "getting started" sessions, but I'll send out an announcement for it when I do.

-jhs