Hands-On Offensive Training
Practical Courses • Expert Instruction • Cyber Range Challenges
- Interactive, live-stream courses → VIEW COURSES
- Real-time support from virtual TAs
- Dedicated chat channels for networking
- Core NetWars Tournament – Free with 5-6 day course purchase
Cutting-Edge Offensive Cyber Security Training
SANS Pen Test Austin: Virtual Edition 2021 (April 19-24, CDT) is six days of in-depth, hands-on penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming, and exploit development training for professionals who need to know how to find vulnerabilities within their organizations, understand risk, and prioritize resources based on potential real-world attacks.
This event isn't just for penetration testers or red team members; it is for any information security professional who wants to understand the mindset, tools, and techniques used by those who intrude where they don't belong. If you like to break things, put them back together, find out how they work, and mimic the actions of real-world bad guys—all the while providing real business value to your organization—this event is for you! View the line-up of cutting-edge offensive operations courses, and register now to learn from leading industry experts.
Featuring SANS Stay Sharp Courses
SANS Stay Sharp courses are 1-3 day courses designed to equip you with in-depth technical knowledge and specific job skills for critical cybersecurity focus areas. These bite-sized SANS training courses allow you to experience high impact training with less time away from work and home responsibilities. This event offers:
- SEC552: Bug Bounties and Responsible Disclosure
- SEC580: Metasploit Kung Fu for Enterprise Pen Testing
- SEC564: Red Team Exercises and Adversary Emulation
Please view the Schedule page for specific dates, as courses may begin and end on different days during this event.
Core NetWars Tournament
Practice real-world skills through cutting-edge challenges and integrated storylines during Core NetWars Tournament, April 22nd & 23rd, 6:30-9:30 PM CDT. As a paid course registrant for SANS Pen Test Austin: Virtual Edition 2021, you will receive an email invitation the week of the event detailing how to confirm your spot and join NetWars online. You will need to follow the steps in the email to join the tournament.
Learn about the Live Online experience:
SANS Pen Test Austin: Virtual Edition 2021 Offers:
- Practical cyber security training taught by real-world practitioners
- Hands-on labs in a virtual environment
- Courses include electronic and printed books
- Several courses align with GIAC certifications
- Archive of course lectures uploaded to your account daily during the event
- Four months of access to your course lectures so you can revisit the recordings
What attendees say about their SANS training experience:
"The best defense is a good offense. This course helped me think like an attacker, and the skills I gained will be invaluable as a developer and defender." - Brandon Evans, Asurion
"SANS Live Online delivers a great instructor/moderator team paired with technology that allows us to participate in this high-speed training remotely. It fosters interaction and participation, and is easy to follow and work along with the instructor." – Trevor MacTaggart, Fortive
"With content and teaching pitched perfectly and organized coherently, SEC504 produces real hands-on learning. It also approaches the content with the higher level perspective needed to understand how hacker tools, exploits, techniques, and incident handling fit into the larger security discussion." - Matthew Duncan, E-ISAC
“The course material is backed up with very well-crafted labs that give you an opportunity to actually use and interact with the tools and techniques covered in the course. Having the labs delivered as VMs that we can run locally and continue to use after the class is a great benefit for continued practice.” - Michael Rizzo, Palo Alto Networks
