SANS Cyber Safari 2025 Community Night Talks

Join us for four nights at the Hyatt Regency Riyadh Olaya for our next Community Night Talks in Riyadh! October 5, 6, 13 and 20, 2025

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SANS Community Nights are a great way to stay in touch with your local InfoSec community and to hear the latest in technical wizardry, industry intelligence, and thought leadership from our amazing instructors.

View the agendas for October 5, 6, 13, and 20 below.

Location: Hyatt Regency Riyadh Olaya, Olaya St, Al Olaya, Riyadh 12213

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Night 105:00PM - 05:30PM AST

The Impact of AI on the Workforce

This session will explore how AI is augmenting the workforce and what it truly takes to build a resilient, AI-empowered team. We’ll break down the top workforce challenges to AI adoption—ranging from lack of literacy and tool overload to integration issues and cultural resistance—and provide practical strategies for overcoming them.

Attendees will spend time mapping their AI-readiness and leave with actionable solutions and example use-cases they can implement immediately. This session will equip you with the insight and frameworks needed to lead confidently in the AI era.

Night 105:30PM - 06:30PM AST

Presented by

Brian Correia

Director of Business Development, GIAC

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Night 205:00PM - 05:30PM AST

Information Security and LLMs

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok have become very powerful. This talk is full of live demonstrations of the kinds of things information security professionals can do with the LLMs. Examples include analyzing and manipulating shell code, writing exfiltration code, analyzing logs, and more.

Night 205:30PM - 06:30PM AST

Presented by

Timothy McKenzie

Principal Instructor

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Night 305:00PM - 05:30PM AST

From Intel to Action: Building a High-Speed Early Warning System with MISP and AI

Abstract: Actionable intelligence is only as good as your ability to share it — quickly, reliably, and with the right context. In this talk, we’ll explore how MISP can be used not just as a threat intel repository, but as a powerful engine for real-time collaboration and operational impact. We’ll cover how to make MISP highly available, build and sustain a community around it, and create qualitative events that provide the necessary context for detection, decision-making, and response. You’ll also see how we’re integrating AI into our workflows to improve speed, reduce manual effort, and enrich intelligence automatically — without sacrificing quality. Whether you’re just getting started with MISP or looking to take your threat sharing to the next level, this talk will give you concrete ideas to make it work in high-pressure, real-world environments.

Night 305:30PM - 06:30PM AST

Presented by

Kevin Holvoet

Certified Instructor

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Night 405:00PM - 05:30PM AST

Save Time with Modern Search Techniques

Abstract: In Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and other Cyber Security topics, we're frequently tasked with consuming HUGE amounts of data and finding the "interesting" parts quickly. We've had great tools to do this for decades. But, those tools we're optimized for old computing hardware. In our modern day we have setups with multiple CPU cores and flash storage. This talk will present some techniques to speed up those old techniques fully utilizing modern hardware.

Night 405:30PM - 06:30PM AST

Presented by

Mark Jeanmougin

Certified Instructor

Meet the Speakers

Brian Correia

Director of Business Development, GIAC

Brian Correia is the Director of Business Development, GIAC, working on the certification source for SANS, the cybersecurity leader in training, degrees, and community resources.

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Timothy McKenzie

Owner

Timothy McKenzie redefined offensive security through decades of Red and Purple Team operations, advancing the industry’s threat simulation standards and influencing thousands of cybersecurity professionals with his adversary emulation strategies.

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Kevin Holvoet

Kevin holds a Master of Science in Applied Informatics, Software Development & Distributed Systems. He is also an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense and multiple winner of the National Cyber League competition.

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Mark Jeanmougin

Security Architect

Mark loves the ever-changing landscape of security and views it as a puzzle that must be solved. He especially loves the challenges in ICS security, where the cyber meets the physical. There is no greater success than a safe and effective process.

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SANS Cyber Safari 2025 Community Night Talks

Schedule

Registration, drinks, and canapes

The Impact of AI on the Workforce

Registration, drinks, and canapes

Information Security and LLMs

Registration, drinks, and canapes

From Intel to Action: Building a High-Speed Early Warning System with MISP and AI

Registration, drinks, and canapes

Save Time with Modern Search Techniques

Meet the Speakers

Brian Correia

Timothy McKenzie

Kevin Holvoet

Mark Jeanmougin

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Sunday, 5th October 2025

Monday, 6th October 2025

Monday, 13th October 2025

Monday, 20th October 2025

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Registration, drinks, and canapes

The Impact of AI on the Workforce

Registration, drinks, and canapes

Information Security and LLMs

Registration, drinks, and canapes

From Intel to Action: Building a High-Speed Early Warning System with MISP and AI

Registration, drinks, and canapes

Save Time with Modern Search Techniques