ChatGPT, GPT-4, Llama 2, Bard, Minerva, Megatron, Claude, Chinchilla... What exactly are these "Large Language Models" that are in the news? What are they really good for? How do they work? What are the risks when we incorporate these into our business process? This 90 minute presentation and tutorial will explain how these models work, what transformers are, how embeddings work, and how to build a question answering AI... the easy way and the...

Data resiliency is a critical but often challenging aspect for organizations. One of the most significant pain points is ensuring that data remains intact, accessible, and recoverable during a cyber-attack, natural disaster, or another system failure. The complexity of managing large volumes of data across multiple systems can also lead to issues with fragmentation and data silos. In this SANS First Look webcast, Certified Instructor Matt Brom...

Hands-On Cyber Security Training Taught by World-Renowned Practitioners Attend in Tempe, AZ or Live Online   SANS Phoenix-Tempe 2023, choose from 48 interactive courses with hands-on labs. Practice your skills and compete against your peers during NetWars Tournaments, and network with your instructor and industry colleagues in real-time. Each course includes electronic and printed books, and several courses align with GIAC certifications!

According to market data, more businesses than ever before are utilizing several cloud service providers. The first SANS Multicloud Survey, performed in 2022, indicated that the forces behind the tendency to adopt multiple cloud solutions was driven by a variety of factors, including mergers and acquisitions and concerns around ensuring business continuity. It is also clear that the major cloud service providers continue to innovate and differ...

As data volume increases and cyberattacks target smaller and smaller organizations, your company needs to determine what content requires the highest level of protection. Unfortunately, unstructured content such as product plans, customer data, and other intellectual property (IP) is extremely enticing to cyberattackers—and the most challenging to protect. In 2024, you need to look beyond traditional enterprise data protection, which is...

Learn to combat the world’s latest cyber threats with up-to-the-minute training from real-world practitioners! Make new connections at one of the largest gatherings of professionals in the cyber community this year. Join us in Austin, TX, or Live Online for SANS Austin Fall 2023 (November 27 – December 2). SANS Austin Fall 2023 features: In-Person or Live Online training Tactical cyber security training taught by experts who...

There are two cybersecurity truisms: You can’t prevent attacks you can’t detect; and attacks you can’t prevent turn into incidents you need to detect before you can respond to them. It takes skilled people, and effective, efficient tools to make sure you can create, validate, and maintain detection signatures that will provide full coverage of real-world attacks while minimizing false positives and false negatives. This SANS...

The Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer recently published two critical initiatives: the 2023-2027 DoD Cyber Workforce Strategy and DoD Manual 8140.03. The strategy establishes the direction for unified management of the cyber workforce and outlines a roadmap for its advancement while DoDM 8140 changes the way that we qualify our workforce. Through the DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce Qualification Program, DoD is expanding the qualification p...

Identities are the foundational cornerstone of many environments. Identity is typically the front door for web, infrastructure portals, and VPN services. Most organizations should implement additional countermeasures to prevent attackers from breaking into an organization. The perimeter of many environments is de-facto users’ identities. How you protect those identities is critical. Understanding how to attack identities is crucial for t...

In July 2023, SANS partnered with Carahsoft for the 2023 Government Security Solutions Forum, where cybersecurity preparedness went back to basics. In this webcast, SANS Certified Instructor Matt Bromiley will review the top trends that emerged during the forum. Matt also uncovers how organizations can prepare for the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan, or NCSIP, released by the White House in March 2023. His focus on preparat...