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Dive into immersive cyber security training with hands-on courses taught by industry experts, make new connections during our interactive events, and learn new skills to accelerate your career.

Did you know SANS offers you multiple ways to complete live training? Choose from interactive Live Online or In-Person events, and see below to explore:

  • In-Person Events in California, Nevada, Colorado, and Texas
  • Live Online Events in US Pacific, US Mountain, and US Central Time

Upcoming Live Training Events

Learn real-world cybersecurity skills directly from top industry experts during SANS Live Training events featuring practical courses with hands-on labs, plus cyber range challenges and networking opportunities.
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At the SANS Blue Team Summit, enhance your current skill set and become even better at defending your organization and hear the latest ways to mitigate the most recent attacks!
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SANS Rocky Mountain Fall 2022 Promo
Experience immersive cyber security training relevant to today’s top cyber threats. Join us in Denver, CO or Live Online for SANS Rocky Mountain Fall 2022 (Oct 10-15), and learn from experienced industry practitioners.
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SANS Leadership & Cloud Security Dallas 2022
Cyber security leaders need both technical knowledge and management skills to gain the respect of technical team members, understand what technical staff is doing, and appropriately plan and manage security projects and initiatives.
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SANS San Francisco Winter 2022
Hands-on cyber security training taught by real-world practitioners. Experience immersive cybersecurity training relevant to today’s top cyber threats.
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SANS San Diego 2023
Learn cybersecurity techniques crucial to combating today's cyber threats. Join us for SANS San Diego 2023 (February 13-18), and experience immersive information security training you can use immediately.
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SANS Las Vegas Winter 2023
Join us Live Online or in Las Vegas, NV to experience interactive training with hands-on labs and network with your peers in real-time.
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Blue Team Summit & Training 2022

Defending against attacks is an ongoing challenge with new threats emerging all the time. At the SANS Blue Team Summit, enhance your current skill set and become even better at defending your organization and hear the latest ways to mitigate the most recent attacks!
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Learn About The SANS Live Training Experience

Are you interested in taking a course? Watch the video to hear how alumni describe their SANS training experience in one word.

See below for featured courses, view our free course demos, and find a training format that works for you.

The real value of this training lies at the intersection of quality content and delivery by a subject-matter expert actively working in the field, making it incredibly relevant and immediately applicable to my job.
P. Watson
- Microsoft Corp
Having an SME instructor with tons of real-world experience makes the course material easy to digest, and the Live Online platform is the best platform I've experienced!
Jeremy Swanson
- ManTech
This *really* pulled a lot together for me, and its been hugely valuable - I know parts of this are going to impact my approach to my work from my first day back.
Merewyn Boak
- Apple
Everything from the instructor to the platform to the labs & materials were great. It all fit together and made this Live Online learning process go smooth. GoToTraining & Slack worked great! I wouldn’t change a thing.
Robert L.
- US Federal Agency
SANS training keeps individuals up-to-date with relevant cyber security information. I can now apply the skills learned towards further maturing my program.
Nicholas Marriott
- Pfizer
The best part of SANS training is the absolute knowledge of the instructors. They bring real-world examples to the forefront and have their thumb on the pulse of current tactics used by attackers.
Jessie Prevost
- Trend Micro
SANS training is very valuable because it focuses on what really matters and provides practical and easy ways to improve your security posture.
Antonio Sannino
- P&G
The labs are giving me a chance to see the course content first hand and interact with it. It's doing a good job of letting me play with it and really seeing how the tools and methodologies work.
Ryan Moeller
- Eureka Strategic Consulting

    Featured Course Demos

    There’s no better way to see our top instructors in action, evaluate the subject matter and course difficulty level than through our course demos. Click on Course Details to see a course demo and discover the course’s availability in our different training formats. Just make sure you’re logged into your SANS portal account to access them. Here are some courses to get you started.
    Cybersecurity and IT Essentials
    SEC401: Security Essentials: Network, Endpoint, and Cloud
    Whether you are new to information security or a seasoned practitioner with a specialized focus, SEC401 will provide the essential information security skills and techniques you need to protect and secure your critical information and technology assets, whether on-premise or in the cloud. SEC401...
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    • GSEC

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    Penetration Testing and Red Teaming
    SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling
    SEC504 helps you develop the skills to conduct incident response investigations. You will learn how to apply a dynamic incident response process to evolving cyber threats, and how to develop threat intelligence to mount effective defense strategies for cloud and on-premises platforms. We'll examine...
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    • GCIH

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    Cloud Security, Penetration Testing and Red Teaming
    SEC588: Cloud Penetration Testing
    SEC588 will equip you with the latest in cloud-focused penetration testing techniques and teach you how to assess cloud environments. The course dives into topics like cloud-based microservices, in-memory data stores, serverless functions, Kubernetes meshes, and containers, as well as identifying...
    Certification:

    • GCPN

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    Digital Forensics and Incident Response
    FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics
    Threat hunting and Incident response tactics and procedures have evolved rapidly over the past several years. Your team can no longer afford to use antiquated incident response and threat hunting techniques that fail to properly identify compromised systems. The key is to constantly look for...
    Certification:

    • GCFA

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    Industrial Control Systems Security
    ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials
    ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials provides a foundational set of standardized skills and knowledge for industrial cybersecurity professionals. The course is designed to ensure that the workforce involved in supporting and defending industrial control systems is trained to keep the operational...
    Certification:

    • GICSP

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    Cyber Defense
    SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth
    SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth delivers the technical knowledge, insight, and hands-on training you need to defend your network with confidence. You will learn about the underlying theory of TCP/IP and the most used application protocols, such as HTTP, so that you can intelligently examine...
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    • GCIA

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    Digital Forensics and Incident Response
    FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
    Learn to turn malware inside out! This popular course explores malware analysis tools and techniques in depth. FOR610 training has helped forensic investigators, incident responders, security engineers, and IT administrators acquire the practical skills to examine malicious programs that target and...
    Certification:

    • GREM

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    Cyber Defense, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
    SEC587: Advanced Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering and Analysis
    With Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) being the engine of most major investigations in this digital age the need for a more advanced course was imminent. The data in almost every OSINT investigation becomes more complex to collect, exploit and analyze. For this OSINT practitioners all around the...
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    Industrial Control Systems Security, Digital Forensics and Incident Response
    ICS515: ICS Visibility, Detection, and Response
    ICS515: ICS Visibility, Detection, and Response will help you gain visibility and asset identification in your Industrial Control System (ICS)/Operational Technology (OT) networks, monitor for and detect cyber threats, deconstruct ICS cyber attacks to extract lessons learned, perform incident...
    Certification:

    • GRID

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      Are you curious to see how SANS Live Online works? SANS Live Online training events offer interactive courses taught by real-world practitioners, real-time support from GIAC-certified TAs, hands-on labs, an archive of course lectures uploaded to your account daily during the event, and four months of access to your course lectures after the event.

      In this Live Online demonstration, you will walk through several lab environments, including labs run in a VM on your computer and remotely accessed labs. You will also see how you can interact with peers, TAs, and your instructor using Slack.

      SANS Live Training Features

      • Flexible Options: Interactive, immersion-style training available Live Online or In-Person with opportunities to network with and learn from other professionals.
      • Courses on the cutting edge: All courses are designed to align with dominant security team roles, duties, and disciplines.
      • Training from the best: SANS instructors are active security practitioners who bring their extensive knowledge and real-world experiences to the classroom.
      • GIAC Certification: Several certifications align with SANS training courses, validating student mastery for professional use in critical, specialized InfoSec domains, and job-specific roles.
      • The SANS Promise: You will be able to apply the skills and techniques you’ve learned as soon as you return to work.

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