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LDR514 Live Online February

  • Mon, Feb 8 - Fri, Feb 12, 2027
  • 1 Course
  • English
Virtual (CT)
LDR514 Live Online February
  • 5-Day Course: February 8 – 12, 2027

    Earn 30 CPEs.

  • GIAC Certification: GIAC Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership

    (GSTRT)

    Learn about certification.

  • Advanced Skill Level

    Course material is geared for cybersecurity professionals with hands-on experience.

  • 32 Hands-On Labs

    Apply what you learn with hands-on exercises and labs.

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LDR514: Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership - Live Online

Security leaders are measured on two things at once: whether the program actually reduces risk, and whether the rest of the business believes it does. LDR514 is built for the distance between those two.

Over five days of live, virtual instruction, you produce the artifacts the job demands. A strategic plan tied to what the business is trying to accomplish. A roadmap backed by an honest gap analysis. A business case that holds up in budget season. Policy written to fit your organization's culture instead of fighting it. Plus, an executive presentation assembled from your own work rather than a template.

During the week, you'll work through:

  • 32 hands-on exercises
  • 20 Cyber42 leadership simulation challenges
  • Nine scenarios drawn from real organizations
  • Three business case studies
  • A capstone strategic planning workshop.

Harvard Business School case studies anchor the leadership sections, which cover situational leadership, delegation, performance conversations, and leading teams through change.

AI is Covered

Course author and SANS Fellow Frank Kim refreshed LDR514 for 2026 with expanded coverage of AI, strategic planning, and enterprise risk leadership, including a lab on writing AI security policy.

Who Should Take This Course?

It is best suited for security managers moving toward a director or CISO seat, program owners responsible for policy, and technical leaders who have been asked to brief the board and want something more useful than a slide of vulnerability counts.

Students Say

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    This course has given me the equivalent of a Cybersecurity MBA in education on how to help organizations accomplish their business goals in the most secure manner possible.
    Joseph J. Flager County, FL
  • Slide 2 of 3
    Anyone looking to get into security leadership, or move up within security leadership, would benefit greatly from this course.
    Joseph J. Flager County, FL
  • Slide 3 of 3
    It’s only the first day and I already wrote a few pages of topics that I will revisit and that I want to dig into once I’m back at work. Especially Frank's quote: We are here to stop bad things from happening, and we are here to enable good things to happen. Frank's passion for his course is obvious from the start to the finish.
    Ybert D.Solina
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Download the Course Syllabus or Letter to Justify this Training to Your Manager

To learn more about LDR514, business takeaways, laptop requirements and more, please visit the course page.

Early Bird Offer

Save $500 USD using the code "EarlyBirdNA" and pay for any 4-6 day course (excluding Beta Courses and 300 Level Courses) by December 24, 2026.

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Mark Williams
Mark Williams

Mark Williams

Consultant at Cyverity

Mark Williams brings more than 30 years of international security, privacy, compliance, and enterprise architecture experience to SANS leadership training, helping students connect strategy, policy, governance, and executive communication to real work.

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Three Reasons to Train Virtually

  • Ultimate Convenience

    Eliminate the hassle of daily commutes and wasted travel time. You’ll have everything you need right from your home.

  • Personalization

    Hands-on learning with the opportunity to ask questions and receive instant feedback from world-renowned experts. Afterward, reinforce your skills with 4-months of access to daily course lecture archives.

  • Hands-On Labs

    Learn cutting-edge cybersecurity knowledge with hands-on labs that provide you with techniques you can immediately use in your organization.

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Frequently Asked Questions

LDR514 Live Online February is taught live in Central Time from February 8-12, 2027. Seven days before class, download your digital materials and run the Test Connection check under SANS Live Online in your SANS Account; printed books ship to your registration address about 14 days ahead. Class chat and help run through your course Slack channel.

Other questions are answered in the SANS Live Training FAQ.

Yes. LDR514 runs live online February 8-12, 2027, in Central Time: five days and 30 CPEs, aligned with GIAC Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership (GSTRT).

Security managers moving toward a director or CISO role, program owners responsible for policy, and technical leaders asked to brief the board.

A strategic plan, a gap-analysis roadmap, a business case, policy, and an executive presentation, built from your own organization across 32 hands-on exercises and 20 Cyber42 leadership simulation challenges.

Yes. Course author Frank Kim refreshed it for 2026 with expanded AI, strategic planning, and enterprise risk content, including a lab on writing AI security policy.