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Is your team well trained or does it lack fundamental and often the advanced skills needed to perform their jobs? Are there team members who are the only ones that know certain functions? What happens when they are not available for good reasons or bad ones? Several avenues for acquiring training are available.<\/p>\n

Many large cities have some or all of all of the following security focused groups that foster community and learning new concepts. Attend these meeting and become more involved in the security community.<\/p>\n

\u2022    OWASP<\/a>
\u2022    InfraGard<\/a>
\u2022    NAISG<\/a>
\u2022    Defcon<\/a>
\u2022    Security B-Sides<\/a><\/p>\n

Do not dismiss the value of setting up a home lab of old equipment or virtualized and ISO distributions to practice hacking and defending your home network. The skills acquired away from work are often the skills that make the biggest difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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