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Empowering Cyber Security Practitioners & Teams

Launched in 1989 as a cooperative for information security thought leadership, SANS Institute helps organizations mitigate cyber risk by empowering cyber security practitioners and teams with training, certifications, and degrees needed to safeguard organizations and advance careers.
Find Training
Find Training
Train with the best practitioners and mentors in the industry. Choose over 85+ cyber security courses, covering all specialties and experience levels.
Get Certified
Get Certified
Demonstrate your cyber security knowledge and capabilities with one of over 40 specialized GIAC cyber security certifications.
Scholarship Academies
Scholarship Academies
Help secure a new career in cyber security with our scholarship cyber academies designed for veterans, women, minority groups, and more.
Earn a Degree or Certificate
Earn a Degree or Certificate
Get started in cyber security or advance your InfoSec career with SANS.edu. Develop the skills you need and obtain the GIAC certifications employers want.

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New Training: Charting the Path to Proactive Risk Management and Incident Response
Only 3% of organizations continually update their cyber risk management plans. Navigating new and updated cybersecurity regulations can be daunting, making compliance a challenge. In this high-stakes arena, seeking guidance from industry leaders is not just prudent-it's imperative. Discover our newest suite of cybersecurity training to level up your organization's cyber risk management and incident readiness. From breach disclosure protocols to enhancing cyber acumen - our solutions are the strategic arsenal your team needs.
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Ransomware Summit 2024 May 31 2024 Ransomware Summit 2024 May 31 2024
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SANS Ransomware Summit
Free Summit: Friday, May 31 | Live Online Attend the SANS Ransomware Summit to learn how to avoid a ransomware horror story first-hand. The Summit will bring together cybersecurity professionals and leading experts from around the world for a day of in-depth talks and discussions focused on ransomware prevention, detection, response, and recovery. Register for Free
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Why SANS Training?

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World's Best Instructors
SANS instructors include the industry’s most accomplished professionals, having battled in the cyber security trenches firsthand, to enable the immediate and effective application of your coursework.
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Hands-on Training
Our curriculum, with practical, hands-on exercises, includes the most comprehensive array of courses and post-training a rich ecosystem of resources and access to a community of the world’s most experienced cyber-professionals.
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Most Valued Certifications
GIAC Certifications provide the highest and most rigorous assurance of cyber security knowledge and skill available to industry, government, and military clients across the world.
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Multiple Training Options
The learning experience at SANS starts with letting cyber students train when, where and how they need to—live or on-demand, in-person or virtual.

Cyber Security Courses by Job Roles

Find your next course and certification. Over 80+ courses available across all experience levels with labs and exercises to practice your new skills immediately. Use the training and certifications we've developed to keep your skills in any or all of these areas razor sharp.

Upcoming Cybersecurity Training events in Europe, Middle East & Africa

SANS offers cybersecurity training all year long, in all different timezones. Find the training you would like to take at a time and location that works best for you.
Amsterdam July 2024
8 Courses In-Person & Live Online
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Pen Test Hackfest Summit Europe 24
8 Courses In-Person & Live-Online
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London August 2024
12 Courses In-Person & Live Online
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Paris 16-21 September 2024
6 Courses In-Person
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Doha September 2024
2 Courses In-Person & Live-Online
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SANS CISO Network

The SANS CISO Network is an exclusive network for CISOs and security leaders.

The network is open exclusively to security leaders at the highest level and connects a unique group of professionals who have the appetite and the authority to make a meaningful difference. By sharing ideas and lessons learnt from a wide variety of industries, the SANS CISO Network provides its members with a platform to influence our digital future and make the world a safer place.
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New courses

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Cyber Defense
SEC673: Advanced Information Security Automation with Python
SEC673 is designed as the logical progression point for students who have completed SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python, or for those who already familiar with basic Python programming concepts. We jump immediately into advanced concepts. SEC673 looks at coding techniques used by...
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Digital Forensics, Incident Response & Threat Hunting
FOR528: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion
FOR528: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion provides the hands-on training required for those who may need to respond to ransomware and/or cyber extortion incidents. The term "Ransomware" no longer refers to a simple encryptor that locks down resources. The advent of Human-Operated Ransomware (HumOR)...
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Major Update
Digital Forensics, Incident Response & Threat Hunting, Cloud Security
FOR509: Enterprise Cloud Forensics and Incident Response
The world is changing and so is the data we need to conduct our investigations. Cloud platforms change how data is stored and accessed. They remove the examiner's ability to put their hands directly on the systems. Many examiners are trying to force old methods for on-premise examination onto cloud...
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  • GCFR

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Digital Forensics, Incident Response & Threat Hunting
FOR608: Enterprise-Class Incident Response & Threat Hunting
FOR608: Enterprise-Class Incident Response & Threat Hunting focuses on identifying and responding to incidents too large to focus on individual machines. By using example tools built to operate at enterprise-class scale, students learn the techniques to collect focused data for incident response...
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  • GEIR

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Digital Forensics, Incident Response & Threat Hunting
FOR710: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Advanced Code Analysis
FOR710: Reverse-Engineering Malware - Advanced Code Analysis prepares malware specialists to dissect sophisticated Windows executables, such as those that dominate the headlines and preoccupy incident response teams across the globe. This course not only includes the necessary background and...
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Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming
SEC556: IoT Penetration Testing
SEC556 facilitates examining the entire IoT ecosystem, helping you build the vital skills needed to identify, assess, and exploit basic and complex security mechanisms in IoT devices. This course gives you tools and hands-on techniques necessary to evaluate the ever-expanding IoT attack surface.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber Defense
SEC595: Applied Data Science and AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Professionals
SEC595 provides students with a crash-course introduction to practical data science, statistics, probability, machine learning, and AI. The course is structured as a series of short discussions with extensive hands-on labs that help students to develop useful intuitive understandings of how these...
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  • GMLE

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Industrial Control Systems Security
ICS418: ICS Security Essentials for Managers
The ICS418: ICS Security Essentials for Managers course empowers leaders responsible for securing critical infrastructure and operational technology environments. The course addresses the need for dedicated ICS security programs, the teams that run them, and the skills required to map industrial...
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Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming
SEC565: Red Team Operations and Adversary Emulation
Develop and improve Red Team operations for security controls in SEC565 through adversary emulation, cyber threat intelligence, Red Team tradecraft, and engagement planning. Learn how to execute consistent and repeatable Red Team engagements that are focused on the effectiveness of the people,...
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  • GRTP

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    Elevating Cybersecurity: The SANS-ISS Partnership and the Future of Cyber Resilience

    In this case study, explore how ISS, a global facility services provider, collaborates with SANS to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities across 28 countries. The video delves into the challenges of unifying diverse IT and security departments and highlights the critical role of ongoing training to adapt to rapid technological and criminal developments. Through firsthand accounts, learn about the implementation of the SANS maturity model, the strategic benefits of SANS training programs, and how ISS is leveraging this partnership to boost corporate resilience and attract top talent in cybersecurity. Discover the pivotal role of human factors in cybersecurity and how ISS is strengthening its defenses not just technologically, but also through skilled and certified personnel.

    How our Alumni feel about our training & certifications

    The real value of this training lies at the intersection of quality content and delivery by a subject-matter expert actively working in the field, making it incredibly relevant and immediately applicable to my job.
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    - Microsoft Corp
    You cannot beat the quality of SANS classes and instructors. I came back to work and was able to implement my skills learned in class on day one. Invaluable.
    Melissa Sokolowski
    - Xerox
    With multiple real-world examples, labs that provide direct application of the course material, and top-notch instructors, there is nothing compared to SANS.
    Matthew Arnsdorff
    - Target
    SANS is the best information security training you’ll find anywhere. World-class instructors, hands-on instruction, actionable information you can really use, and NetWars.
    Jeff Stebelton
    - NetJets Inc.

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