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SANS 2026 Government Security Forum

The SANS 2026 Government Forum, presented in partnership with Carahsoft, brings together federal, state, and local government cybersecurity professionals to explore the evolving threat landscape and the solutions shaping secure, mission-ready environments.

Intro to WinDbg Part 4: Don't Panic the Kernel – A Recommendation for SEC665

Fear not the kernel. This WinDbg workshop takes you below user mode to inspect filesystem minifilters, kernel structures, and security product telemetry, building the debugger confidence needed for advanced SEC665 research.

CISSP Cram Session

This fast-paced webcast will cover the core content required to pass the CISSP® exam.

Is Your Workforce Ready? From Mandate to Mission: DoD 8140 for Defense Contractors

This session delivers a practical roadmap for turning that mandate into a business advantage.

SANS Nashville Summer 2026: Strong Security Culture - Five Steps You Can Take Now

Learn how to engage and transform your organization into the biggest believers and supporters of cybersecurity by institutionalizing a strong security culture.

Defending Critical Infrastructure Under Elevated Threat Conditions

Join SANS ICS expert Dean Parsons for practical guidance on strengthening defenses, improving visibility, and maintaining operational integrity across industrial environments. This session will focus on real-world approaches to reducing risk while keeping safety and availability front and center.

How to Reduce Connectivity Tickets and Accelerate Application Changes

In this Ask the Expert session, attendees will learn how organizations can reduce connectivity-related tickets, streamline security policy changes, and accelerate application delivery without compromising control or compliance.

Hybrid Identity Under Attack: A Walkthrough of the Storm-0501 Chain

Follow the trust, find the attack. Walk the Storm-0501 chain from on-prem AD to Entra ID, learn which sync accounts and federation anchors attackers abuse, and leave with KQL ideas and controls to disrupt hybrid identity compromise.

You Can’t Fight What You Don’t Understand: The Quantum Threat Demystified for Security Practitioners

This session gives security practitioners a clear model of what quantum threatens, how to frame it for leadership, and which crypto-inventory and secrets-management steps matter most now.

Securing the Region's AI Surge: A Practical Maturity Model for Gulf Cyber Leaders

In this session, Chris Cochran, Field CISO and VP of AI Security at SANS Institute, introduces the AI Security Maturity Model™ (Gulf Region Edition) — a practical, five-stage framework built specifically for regional cyber leaders navigating this shift.

Securing Agentic AI: Where Do You Start?

Agentic AI doesn’t just answer, it acts. This session will give leaders and defenders a starting point to enable agents safely, combining policy, culture, and technical controls like gateways, guardrails, sandboxing, and runtime governance.

Strengthening the Foundation: Implementing SANS ICS Controls 1 and 2

In this session, we dive into the first two pillars of the SANS Top 5 Critical ICS Controls: ICS Incident Response and Defensible Architecture.

Beyond MFA: A Defender's Guide to Token Theft and AiTM

MFA alone can’t stop token theft and AITM attacks. This session shows defenders how phishing-resistant authentication, Conditional Access, Continuous Access Evaluation, and token controls can strengthen identity defenses.

SANS 2026 Cloud Security Exchange with AWS, Google & Microsoft

Join the 5th annual SANS Cloud Security Exchange—a one-of-a-kind virtual event where cloud and cybersecurity experts from SANS Institute, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft will come together to share thought leadership and technical insights.

Cloud Summit Solutions Track 2026

SANS 2026 Cloud Security Exchange Summit Solutions Track delivers a focused look at the tools, architectures, and operational strategies driving secure and resilient cloud environments across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Can (A)I Hack It? Reflections of a Regulator

AI has become both a subject of regulatory attention and a tool for threat actors, operators and regulators alike. A recovering electrical engineer will share his journey into telco cyber regulation, and his hits and misses with AI along the way.

SANS San Antonio 2026 - SANS@Night: Bootstrap: How To Start Anything

This talk is about how to bootstrap almost anything, whether it’s a company, an open source project, a personal pursuit, a charity, a conference, or just about anything else.

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

This webcast explores why the traditional tool-first approach to security operations is failing resource-constrained teams and what modern detection and response programs must do instead.

SANS Cloud Security Exchange Summit & Training 2026 - SANS@Night: Guardrails for AI Coding

This session focuses on AI coding guardrails: practical, developer-friendly controls that help teams adopt coding assistants with confidence while maintaining strong security, governance, and assurance.

The Agentic SOC: AI-Powered Detection, Investigation, and Response with Google SecOps

In this webcast, SANS Senior Instructor Dave Shackleford will explore what an Agentic SOC looks like in practice using Google SecOps.