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SANS 2026 Security Awareness & Culture Report

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness
  • 27 Aug 2026
  • Lance Spitzner

From Tools to Telemetry: A Playbook for Modern Detection and Response in Resource-Constrained Teams

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness
  • 19 Aug 2026
  • Rich Greene

Securing the Agentic Cloud: Practical Strategies for Detection, Zero Trust, Governance, and Security Architecture

WhitepaperArtificial Intelligence, Cloud Security
  • 17 Aug 2026
  • Gee Rittenhouse, Eric Johnson, Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Dave Shackleford, Wesley Kuzma, Chris Cochran

VulnOps Field Guide

WhitepaperCyber Defense, Artificial Intelligence
  • 12 Aug 2026
  • SANS Institute

Evaluating LLMs as a Bridge Between Cyber Threats and Business Risk for Executive Decision-Making

WhitepaperArtificial Intelligence, Cyber Defense
  • 11 Aug 2026
  • Arcadio Aguilar

The Invisible Checkpoint: Passive LTE Traffic Capture for Mobile Malware Detection

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response, Cyber Defense
  • 11 Aug 2026
  • Garo Sinanian

Dual-Module QR Codes: Bypassing QR Code Scanners in Enterprise Email Gateways

WhitepaperOffensive Operations
  • 6 Aug 2026
  • Steven Legere

Entra ID Governance: Insta-IAM/IGA Solution?

WhitepaperCyber Defense
  • 6 Aug 2026
  • Scott Fortin

Network Artifacts of Trusted Service Abuse

WhitepaperOffensive Operations
  • 6 Aug 2026
  • Nicholas Vaniscak

Reconstructing Deleted File Activity Using FSEvents from macOS

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response
  • 30 Jul 2026
  • Josh Clevenger

Benchmarking Free-Tier Large Language Models as Cognitive Aids for Operationalizing Unstructured Cyber Threat Intelligence

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response
  • 20 Jul 2026
  • Jose "Ricky" Banda

AI + Network Control: Visibility, Risk Prioritization, and Automation in the Age of Agentic NetOps

WhitepaperArtificial Intelligence
  • 17 Jul 2026
  • Matt Bromiley