Instructors

Ed Skoudis is the founder of Counter Hack, an innovative organization that designs, builds, and operates popular infosec challenges and simulations including CyberCity, NetWars, Cyber Quests, and Cyber Foundations. As director of the CyberCity project, Ed oversees the development of missions which help train cyber warriors in how to defend the kinetic assets of a physical, miniaturized city. Ed's expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, incident response, and malware analysis, with over fifteen years of experience in information security. Ed authored and regularly teaches the SANS courses on network penetration testing (Security 560) and incident response (Security 504), helping over three thousand information security professionals each year improve their skills and abilities to defend their networks. He has performed numerous security assessments; conducted exhaustive anti-virus, anti-spyware, Virtual Machine, and IPS research; and responded to computer attacks for clients in government, military, financial, high technology, healthcare, and other industries. Previously, Ed served as a security consultant with InGuardians, International Network Services (INS), Global Integrity, Predictive Systems, SAIC, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Ed also blogs about command line tips and penetration testing.

Type	Course / Location	Date	Register
Summit	SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking SANS Pen Test Hackfest Training Event and Summit Washington, DC	Nov 7, 2013 - Nov 14, 2013
Training Event	SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking SANS Security East 2014 New Orleans, LA	Jan 20, 2014 - Jan 25, 2014
Training Event	SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking SANS Cyber Guardian 2014 Baltimore, MD	Mar 3, 2014 - Mar 8, 2014

*Course contents may vary depending upon location, see specific event description for details.