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SANS Spotlight: Cybersecurity Leadership Training Opportunities

Please see below for a curated collection of training opportunities to help you develop practical skills to build and lead your security team.
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If you are looking to accelerate your training goals, learn new skills, make new connections, and level up your career, SANS Summits are a great starting point. If you haven't yet joined us for a Summit, get a taste by watching the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit Keynote from 2021, presented by Kyriakos "Rock" Lambros, CEO & Founder of RockCyber.

Ready for more? Check out upcoming SANS Summits, register for a free virtual Summit, or sign up to get notified when registration opens for the 2022 Cybersecurity Leadership Summit.

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Upcoming Training Events Featuring Leadership Courses

Learn real-world cyber security skills directly from top industry experts during SANS Live Training events featuring interactive courses with hands-on labs, plus cyber range challenges and networking opportunities.
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Event Details: March 21-26, 2022 Live Online | CDT Leadership Courses Available: MGT512, MGT514, SEC566
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Event Details: April 4-6, 2022 Live Online | EDT Leadership Courses Available: MGT415, MGT433, MGT520
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Event Details: May 5-10, 2022 San Diego, CA or Live Online Leadership Courses Available: MGT414, MGT512, MGT514, MGT516
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SANS 2022

Experience immersive cyber security training relevant to today’s top cyber threats. Join us Live Online or in Orlando, FL for SANS 2022 (April 10-15) to learn from experienced cyber security practitioners and practice your skills during virtual NetWars Tournaments. Leadership courses include: MGT512, MGT514, MGT414, and SEC566.
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Are you interested in taking a SANS training course? Watch the video to hear about a student’s favorite aspect of his SANS training experience and what made it so valuable.

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

I thoroughly enjoyed MGT512. The content was comprehensive and engaging, and there was an excellent balance between labs and lecture. Kevin's enthusiasm and love for the subject really brought everything to life.
Katy Lee
- BAE Systems
Training technical minds to work with the business is a gap that needs to be bridged. This course does that!
Alex Alvanos
- Global Lending Services
MGT551 provides pretty much everything you need to justify and build out a SOC. It really helped me understand where our priorities should be and how I can set and achieve goals to get us to being a better SOC.
Zak Scholl
- Zendesk

    SANS Leadership 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 SANS Cybersecurity Leadership courses to get you started.
    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT512: Security Leadership Essentials for Managers
    Security leaders need both technical knowledge and leadership skills to gain the respect of technical team members, understand what technical staff are actually doing, and appropriately plan and manage security projects and initiatives. This is a big and important job that requires an understanding...
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    • GSLC

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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT551: Building and Leading Security Operations Centers
    Information technology is so tightly woven into the fabric of modern business that cyber risk has become business risk. SOC teams are facing more pressure than ever before to help manage this risk by identifying and responding to threats across a diverse set of infrastructures, business processes,...
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    • GSOM

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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT414: SANS Training Program for the CISSP Certification
    MGT414 is fully updated for the May 2021 CISSP exam update! MGT414: SANS Training Program for CISSP Certification is an accelerated review course designed to prepare you to pass the exam. The course prepares students to navigate all types of questions included on the new version of the exam.
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    • GISP

    Course Details
    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT525: Managing Cybersecurity Initiatives and Effective Communication
    Many cybersecurity professionals are highly technical but often unfamiliar with project management terminology, methodologies, resource management, and leading teams. Overseeing diverse groups of stakeholders and team members, estimating resources accurately, as well as analyzing risk as applied to...
    Certification:

    • GCPM

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    New
    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT433: Managing Human Risk
    Security leaders realize that cybersecurity is no longer just a technical issue but also a human one. Their greatest challenge now has become how to most effectively manage their human risk, as people are involved in over 80% of all breaches. Many organizations attempt to address this by running...
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    • SSAP

    Course Details
    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT514: Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership
    The next generation of security leadership must bridge the gap between security staff and senior leadership by strategically planning how to build and run effective security programs. Yet, creating a security strategy, executing a plan that includes sound policy coupled with top-notch leadership is...
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    • GSTRT

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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit, Cloud Security
    MGT516: Building and Leading Vulnerability Management Programs
    Vulnerability, patch, and configuration management are not new enterprise security topics. In fact, they are some of the oldest security functions. Yet, we still struggle to manage security vulnerability capabilities effectively. The quantity of outstanding vulnerabilities for most enterprise...
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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit, Cloud Security
    MGT520: Leading Cloud Security Design and Implementation
    While the cloud environment may appear similar to running a traditional IT environment on the premises, the cloud solutions protection requirements are in fact very different because the traditional network perimeter is no longer the best line of defense, and the threat vectors are not the same....
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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT415: A Practical Introduction to Cyber Security Risk Management
    MGT415 will provide students with an introduction to thinking practically about risk management and teach the skills necessary to perform risk assessments. Not only will students learn foundational concepts of risk, but they will be given templates and tools that they can take back to their office...
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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    MGT521: Leading Cybersecurity Change: Building a Security-Based Culture
    Cybersecurity leadership is no longer just about technology. It is ultimately about organizational change - change not only in how people think about cybersecurity but in what they prioritize and how they act, from the Board of Directors to every corner of the organization. Students will learn how...
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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit
    SEC566: Implementing and Auditing Security Frameworks and Controls
    High-profile cybersecurity attacks indicate that offensive attacks are outperforming defensive measures. Cybersecurity engineers, auditors, privacy, and compliance team members are asking how they can practically protect and defend their systems and data, and how they should implement a prioritized...
    Certification:

    • GCCC

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