An online training source and a comment on watching/listening

There is an excellent and inexpensive way to get more security training.
Coursera
Here is the TED talk that pointed it out to me.

Offering a series of courses on on CyberSecurity from UMD - College Park. A good school.  I suggest taking the Signature Track if you can afford it (a few hundred dollars) or the free version (no real proof of completion) if you can't.

Its a combination of videos and reading and online discussion, quizzes and projects.
It is not a small undertaking but it is a good overview.  It goes into a lot of programming so its not absolutely ideal for IT, but its still very good.

Now, a short discussion on listening to and watching videos.
If you are like me, you have very little free time.
Once upon a time I had a 45-90minute commute.....each way.   So I would listen to podcasts in the car.
I learned an awful lot of stuff, most of it utterly useless.
Then my commute changed and all of a sudden I was down to 12 minutes each way.  Sounds like a win, except I missed my podcasts.
I noticed a speed button on my podcast software.  I upped it from 1 to 1.25.  That worked.  Took some getting used to, but it meant that I could hear more than 12 minutes of podcast on my way to work.  Slowly, over time, as I realized I could hear every word and understand it, I upped the speed.
Now I can listen to my usual podcasts (no major accents, topics I am familiar with) at 2.5 speed and new subject matter at 2X.
That Ted Talk I linked to above?  10 minutes.  That's a lot better.  Also, because the time used is shorter, I find I concentrate better.
I used to think, based on limited reading of the research, that reading faster meant better comprehension but I recently found that there is no consensus on this and the research is deeply conflicted.
That being said, for me at least, faster listening IS better.
Even Youtube lets me speed most videos up to 2X.
DO with it as you will, it might just be useful.

As for what podcasts I currently (or in the past) Listen to:
The History of Rome (completed) and now the Revolutions podcast
12 Byzantine Rulers (complete)
Hardcore History (ongoing)
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Ted Radio Hour
Ask Me Another
Paul Security Weekly
The Bugle
Ted Talks
BIG Ideas
Intelligence squared US
Intelligence Squared
HAK5
SANS ISC Stormcast
RadioLab
All of which looks like a lot but most only produce an hour a week at 1X and some only an hour a month and others are done so I stopped......
All in all, I take in a lot of info this way, in half the time it was meant to take up.