Washington, DC
Grand Hyatt Washington
Organizer: SANS Institute
The SANS Cyber Defense Initiative is a six-day cybersecurity training event designed to help practitioners build or advance hands-on security skills through intensive, expert-led instruction. The event offers 40 courses, a NetWars Tournament, hands-on labs, keynote presentations, SANS@Night talks, workshops, and networking opportunities. The program covers foundational through advanced cybersecurity topics, with training focused on practical, real-world techniques that participants can apply in their organizations.
Key topics:
- Incident response and digital forensics
- Network monitoring and threat detection
- Hacker tools, techniques, and penetration testing
- ICS/SCADA security
- Cyber threat intelligence
- AI and machine learning in cybersecurity
- Malware analysis, cloud security, and enterprise defense
Who should attend: IT and security leaders, cybersecurity analysts and security engineers,
incident response and SOC professionals,
digital forensics and malware analysis practitioners,
penetration testers and ethical hackers,
network, cloud, and endpoint security professionals,
ICS/SCADA security professionals
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