Tutorials on INFOSECIsland

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   The email below was requested to be put-out to the island community for thoughts. I submitted this to Anthony a couple nights ago and would like to see if this is of interest to anyone else.

 

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   I was thinking this evening about how I might contribute more to the site. Something I think would be of great value – and unique to Infosec Island – would be a separate designation for Tutorial posts. Some of the data I would think is of interest to the community at-large should be couched as tutorial in some way, rather than the typically news-worthy Blog. For example, creating a separate tab for all tutorials and prepending “[TUTORIAL]” to the beginning of the post title would make me feel much more comfortable submitting tutorial style posts.

Example topics:
- Setting up SE Linux
- Understanding the Object-Capability Model
- Introduction to Cryptography
- Practical examples of mod_ssl
- Fingerprinting web applications
- Introduction to Kerberos
- SO much more…

I think something like this would do quite a bit for sustained rankings as everyone is looking for a tutorial for something…

BUT…This really should be quality controlled. If it were me, I would come up with a format for both text and video tutorials. Something like:

Text-based tutorial:
1 – Introduction
2 – Learning Objectives stated
3 – Step-by-step instructions with concise explanations.
4 – Practical Application
5 – Recap of material
6 – Conclusion
* Must be between ### and ### words (to avoid books being written)

Video Tutorials:
1 – Must follow Text-based format
2 – Must be no longer than X minutes