Monta Elkins
- Certified Instructor
- Twitter: @montaelkins
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. He has been a speaker at DEFCON , Homeland Security's ICSJWG (Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group), EnergySec's Security Summit, VASCAN, GE Digital Energy's Annual Software Summit, Educause Security Professionals Conference, Toshiba's Industrial Control Systems Conference, NERC's GridSecCon, ICS CyberSecurity by Security Week, UTC Telecom and other security conferences. Monta also is the recipient of the EnergySec's Cyber Security Professional of the Year Award for 2018. Elkins was recognized by the Industrial Control System (ICS) community and staff at EnergySec for his exceptional contributions to ICS security.
Monta is the author and instructor of the "Defense against the Dark Arts" hands-on, hacker tools and techniques classes. He is also a guest lecturer for Virginia Tech and teaches rapid prototyping and Arduino classes with Let's Code Blacksburg. He has a YouTube channel as well.
Here is a SANS Summit presentation by Monta Elkins:
Upcoming Courses Taught By Monta Elkins
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Oil & Gas Cybersecurity Summit & Training 2019 Houston, TX
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Sep 16, 2019 - Sep 22, 2019 |
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 Training Event |
SANS Denver 2019 Denver, CO
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Oct 14, 2019 - Oct 19, 2019 |
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Training Event |
SANS Paris November 2019 Paris, France
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Nov 4, 2019 - Nov 9, 2019 |
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SANS Nashville 2019 Nashville, TN
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Dec 2, 2019 - Dec 7, 2019 |
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SANS Security East 2020 New Orleans, LA
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Feb 1, 2020 - Feb 8, 2020 |
*Course contents may vary depending upon location, see specific event description for details.
