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SANS VoU — Course Discovery
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Voice of the User · Course Discovery

Help us improve how people find courses.

We are looking at a few different ways to explore SANS courses and want to know what works for you. No right or wrong answers. Should take about 10 minutes.

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Your answers stay with usYour responses are used solely by the SANS research team and will not be shared outside of it.
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Answer honestlyThere are no right or wrong answers. We want to know what you actually think, not what sounds good.
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Do you plan training just for yourself, or for you and a wider team?
Before we begin

A couple of quick questions first

Before we show you anything, we want to understand how you currently approach this.

Course discovery
1
When you are looking for training, where do you usually start?
e.g. Google, the SANS site, a colleague suggestion?
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What do you need to know before you can commit to a course?
Cost, level, format, cert, outcomes?
3
What gets in the way of finding the right one?
Question 1 of 1

If you had to find a SANS course right now, which of these would you try first?

Tap them in order, starting with the one you would try first.

● Tap to rank, 1 being what you would reach for first
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IR
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Tool 1
Skills Roadmap
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Step 1 of 4
What is your current role?
We will tailor recommendations to your background.
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Tool 2
Course Advisor
Answer a few questions to get course recommendations.
SEC401
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SEC504
Essentials
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GSEC
GCIH
🧪 Labs
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44 labs
📅 Duration
6 days
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Tool 3
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A few quick questions about the other two

You ranked these lower. We want to know why.

Overall
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If you could only keep one of the four, which would it be and why?
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Was there anything you wanted that none of them had?
All done

Thanks, that was really useful.

What you have told us will feed directly into how we develop this. We will be in touch.

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