Hello everyone, I'm a junior CERT analyst, I've been working in this field for 6 years now and I will get my first SANS training (FOR500 - GCFE) in November, on site.

I am very interested in taking the most advantage of this training and optain the certification since there aren't lots of people who get SANS trainings from my company. I am very grateful they trust me for this, but I'm a bit worried.

Do you have any advice on how I should organize myself? I'll get a PC with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD storage, that should be enough for the labs.

I was told I need to create a proper index with the specific topics, study 1h at least a day and to be prepared to work hard.

I would be very grateful if you have suggestions and tips.

Thanks for reading!

Edit: thank you so much for your kind and useful answers! I know SANS training is a topic that comes a lot in this subreddit so thank you for taking the time to bring other ideas. Very much appreciated!