High-value penetration testing doesn't involve just throwing a bunch of hacks at a target environment and declaring victory when a shell prompt magically pops up. Instead, the best penetration testers focus on understanding their craft in-depth, providing significant value to organizations by improving their security stance through technical excellence and implementation of a well-understood and repeatable methodologies, which will deliver rea...

SANS is committed to delivering high-quality cyber security training so you can keep your skills sharp and stay ahead of cyber threats. Join us for interactive trainings during SANS Cyber Security West 2021 - Live Online (Feb 1-6, PST), and receive relevant, applicable training from wherever you are. Choose your course and register now for practical training taught by top industry practitioners. SANS Live Online events offer live-stream, instr...

Defending against attacks is an ongoing challenge with new threats emerging all the time. Are you looking to quickly level up your blue team skills? Do you want to enhance your current skill set and become even better at defending your organization? Are you looking for the latest ways to mitigate the most recent attacks? SANS Stay Sharp: Blue Team Operations 2021 - Live Online (Jan 18-22, MST) offers short courses designed to equip you with cy...

At SANS, our mission remains steady. We continue to deliver relevant cyber security knowledge and skills, empowering students to protect people and their assets. Join us online for SANS Security East 2021 - Live Online (Jan 11-16, CST), and continue to build practical cyber security skills you can implement immediately. Choose from over 20 courses taught by real-world practitioners, plus two NetWars Tournaments delivered Live Online. SANS Live...

SANS Cloud Defender 2021 – Live Online (Jan 11-16, EST) provides immersion training designed to help you master the practical steps necessary for defending systems and applications in the cloud against the most dangerous threats. The courses are full of important and immediately useful techniques that you can put to work as soon as you return to your office. Register now for interactive training taught by top industry practitioners. SANS...

Discover the most effective steps to prevent cyber-attacks and detect adversaries with actionable techniques you can apply immediately. Join us for SANS Cyber Defense Initiative® 2020 - Live Online (Dec 14-19, EST), and receive relevant cyber security training from real-world practitioners. Choose from over 35 interactive courses taught by industry experts, plus three NetWars Tournaments delivered Live Online. SANS Live Online events offer...

Eight years in, the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program has matured and broadened its offerings significantly. The focus now is on deploying a threat intelligence framework for governmentwide use, integrating the AWARE risk-scoring algorithm and rolling out of security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) to automate vulnerability detection and defensive cyber operations. More extensive and sophisticated use of data in dashboa...

Transforming the IT infrastructure for an agency is a complicated task that requires coordinated and effective decision making, buy-in from key executives and detailed data and security strategies -- not to mention funding for new technology or the move to managed services. This FCW Summit will discuss new policies and guidance that will govern these changes. In addition, agencies that are well into their modernization journey will share lesso...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. Technology modernization is the foundation of good cybersecurity. Government agencies must address their aging of legacy systems to protect against evolving, sophisticated cyberattacks. The key to improving security posture is gaining intelligence that lets us respond to our environments and deriving INSIGHTS that empower us to change it. Join...

Agencies have made significant progress in improving interactions with their citizen customers by modernizing their infrastructure, moving to the cloud, using agile digital services and emerging technologies on the front end and capturing and analyzing the data on the backend. There is still work to be done, however, and the 21st Century IDEA Act -- passed as part of the 2018 NDAA -- has added new priorities for improving and expanding the typ...