GREM Achievement Unlocked
I had been going through the SANS FOR610 Reverse Engineering Malware content OnDemand recently and last week I knocked out the GREM. I figured it would be a good time to post a few thoughts on it and talk about a few things that people can do to help prep for the course. This was the first time in a while where I prepped for a GIAC exam without attending the course live. I was a bit worried about that with such a technical course but I ended up having a great experience. This was also the first time one of my courses has had the new style of OnDemand where the course was recorded in a professional studio instead of during a live class. The results were really nice and felt for intimate than I expected. Every time a lab came up I would pause the course, work through the lab and then watch Lenny Zeltser’s walkthrough afterwards. He did a fantastic job of explaining things and going through the labs step by step. Even with dealing with advanced concepts, I never felt lost. In a stroke of