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SEC617 Live Online February

  • Mon, Feb 8 - Sat, Feb 13, 2027
  • 1 Course
  • English
Virtual (ET)
SEC617 Live Online February
  • 6-Day Course: February 8 – 13, 2027

    Earn 36 CPEs.

  • GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks

    (GAWN)

    Learn about certification.

  • Advanced Skill Level

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

  • 20 Hands-On Labs

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

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SEC617: Wireless Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking - Live Online

Wireless is the one attack surface that ignores the badge reader. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, and a long tail of proprietary radio protocols run through executive floors, production lines, data center doors, and payment terminals, and most security programs treat all of it as somebody else's problem.

SEC617 makes it yours. Six days of live, virtual instruction on assessing and exploiting the full wireless spectrum, taught by working penetration testers. You receive the SANS Wireless Assessment Toolkit, a hardware and software kit built for this work, so the skills transfer to your own engagements the following week.

During the Week, You'll Work Through:

  • 20 hands-on labs
  • A Capture the Flag event spanning Wi-Fi, proprietary signals, and smart cards
  • 802.11 packet analysis, monitor mode work, and rogue AP identification
  • WPA2 pre-shared key, WPA2 Enterprise, and WPA3 attack exercises
  • Bluetooth Classic and BLE attacks, plus practical software-defined radio application
  • Low-frequency and high-frequency RFID tag decoding, analysis, and attack

What Comes in the Box

The SWAT kit includes a high-powered Wi-Fi card, a long-range Bluetooth adapter, RFID read/write hardware, a software-defined radio receiver, and a customized Linux environment. It ships ahead of class, so hardware compatibility is not something you troubleshoot on day one. 36 CPE credits, aligned to the GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks (GAWN) certification.

Who Should Take This Course?

Penetration testers and ethical hackers, network security staff, incident response teams, technical auditors, security consultants, and wireless or embedded system engineers who need to evaluate what they build.

Students Say

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    The detailed cryptographic explanations in SEC617 made it easier to understand how various encryption algorithms work-which for me is a first!
    Jonathan WilhoitFluor
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    SEC617 is great for someone looking for a top-to-bottom rundown of wireless attacks.
    Garret PicchioniSalesforce
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    If you're thinking about wireless, take SEC617. If you're not, take SEC617.
    Greg NotchNHL
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Featured Speaker

Monta Elkins
Monta Elkins

Monta Elkins

Hacker-in-Chief at FoxGuard Solutions

Monta Elkins is currently "Hacker-in-Chief" for FoxGuard Solutions, an ICS patch provider. A security researcher and consultant; he was formerly Security Architect for Rackspace, and the first ISO for Radford University.

Read more about Monta Elkins

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  • 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

SEC617 Live Online February is taught live in Eastern Time from February 8-13, 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. Monta Elkins, Hacker-in-Chief at FoxGuard Solutions, teaches SEC617 live online February 8-13, 2027, in Eastern Time: six days and 36 CPEs, aligned with GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks (GAWN).

The SANS Wireless Assessment Toolkit, shipped before class: a high-powered Wi-Fi card, a long-range Bluetooth adapter, RFID read/write hardware, a software-defined radio, and a custom Linux environment.

WPA2 and WPA3 attacks, Bluetooth Classic and BLE, low- and high-frequency RFID, and proprietary radio protocols through software-defined radio.

Penetration testers, network security staff, incident responders, technical auditors, and wireless or embedded engineers who need to evaluate what they build.