To The Last Tribe Consulting

As I alluded to in a past post, I have been working on my GCIH Gold paper for the past 6 months.  Well, I submitted it last month, and just found out that it has been accepted/passed!  This means that I now have my GCIH Gold certification.  I will be working on my GSEC Gold certification next.

As for the paper itself, I decided to do original research on social engineering on social networks–specifically, on the amount of information that people give up on the “harmless” quizzes they take on social networks like Facebook.

Below is the abstract:  (You can find the paper online here)

-Josh

Just wanted to give you a brief update on what I have been working on lately.

I am currently working on my GCIH Gold paper–My abstract was accepted by SANS, and I have been working on it for a little over a month now.

I would rather not share the abstract for now, as it is an area of original research, and I would rather not tip my hand.

But to give you a clue of the general direction, here is a pic of some of my source material for the background research.

Josh

This week I am starting a new 2 day SANS class.  This class deals with the credit card industry standard PCI DSS.  The organization I work with is working on PCI DSS compliance, and I am heavily involved in it, so we decided that I should go ahead and take the class, to get as educated as I can about the standard.  I will be posting a Lessons Learned and Review of the class after I finish it, sometime in the next few weeks.  I will also be posting what I am currently doing in my new position in Michigan.

Josh