SANS Riyadh June 2026 Community Nights

Nick Mitropoulos is a SANS Certified Instructor and author of SEC555: Detection Engineering and SIEM Analytics. As CEO of Scarlet Dragonfly and a veteran of SOC and incident response leadership, he equips students with real-world skills in detection engineering. Nick also serves on the GIAC Advisory Board, SANS CISO Network, and faculty of the SANS Technology Institute.

Andy Smith, SANS Instructor for SEC530 and Head of Enterprise Security Architecture at Sage, draws on two decades at BP to teach how defensible design and Zero Trust principles strengthen real-world systems.