High-Impact Cyber Security Training

The ICS418: ICS Security Essentials for Managers course empowers leaders responsible for securing critical infrastructure and operational technology environments. The course addresses the need for dedicated ICS security programs, the teams that run them, and the skills required to map industrial cyber risk to business objectives to prioritize safety. ICS418 will help you manage the people, processes, and technologies necessary to create and sustain lasting ICS cyber risk programs while promoting a culture of safety, reliability, and security.

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 immediately after class to perform risk assessments. Throughout the class students will learn introductory concepts of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) that they can use to mature their cyber security programs.

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 security awareness programs, but far too often most programs are compliance focused, nothing more than mandatory annual training. As a result, not only is their workforce highly insecure, but most of their workforce has a very negative perception of cybersecurity. This course enables organizations to effectively manage and measure their human risk by changing people'sbehavior and building a strong security culture.

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. Effective defense of the organizations cloud environment requires significant planning and governance by a well-informed management team. This course provides the information security leaders need to drive a secure cloud model and leapfrog on security to leverage the security capabilities in the cloud. We will walk through the key aspects of managing cloud security programs in the continuous operations post-migration that are common across organizations on the same journey. Nine scenario-based labs are included.

If you are worried about leading or supporting a major cyber incident, then this is the course for you. MGT553: Cyber Incident Management focuses on the non-technical challenges facing leaders in times of extreme pressure. Whilst you may have a full team of technical staff standing-by to find, understand and remove the attackers, they need information, tasking, managing, supporting, and listening to so you can maximize their utilization and effectiveness. We focus on building a team to remediate the incident, on managing that team, on distilling the critical data for briefing, and how to run that briefing. We look at communication at all levels from the hands-on team to the executives and Board, investigative journalists, and even the attackers. This course contains nine (9) case studies for hands-on learning.

Today's world of cyber security moves quickly. Cloud security moves even faster, so getting started or moving into a career in this field can be intimidating if you do not have the foundation to be successful. SANS SEC388 solves this problem by helping you to learn the foundational elements of modern cloud computing and security. This course kicks off your journey to becoming a SANS Cloud Ace by taking an introductory yet critical look at cloud security. This course focuses on Azure and AWS, and shows you how to interact with each cloud provider by familiarizing you with common terminology, cloud services, security concerns, and solutions to cloud-based security shortcomings. Through hands-on labs, SEC388 puts you in real-world scenarios that challenge you to learn more about AWS, Azure, and relevant cloud computing and security concepts. 12 Labs

High profile cybersecurity attacks indicate that offensive attacks are overwhelming defensive measures. Even with management's attention to system penetrations and data loss, risky incidents are still costly to the enterprise's balance sheets. Cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance people are asking, "How do we practically protect and defend our information and systems? How do we understand security frameworks and controls?" This course provides students an overview to the security controls and cybersecurity hygiene defined in the CIS Critical Controls.

SEC467 will prepare you to add social engineering skills to your security strategy. In this course, you will learn how to perform recon on targets using a wide variety of sites and tools, create and track phishing campaigns, and develop media payloads that effectively demonstrate compromise scenarios. You will also learn how to conduct pretexting exercises, and you will put what you have learned into practice with a fun Capture-the-Human exercise. SEC467 will open up new attack possibilities, help you better understand the human vulnerability in attacks, and provide you with hands-on practice with snares that have been proven effective.

The age of cloud computing has arrived as organizations have seen the advantages of migrating their applications from traditional on-premises networks. However, the rapid adoption of cloud has left architects scrambling to design on this new medium. A shift to the cloud requires cybersecurity professionals to reorient their security goals around a new threat model to enable business requirements while improving their organization's security posture. SEC549 is here to help enable this shift. The course takes an architectural lens to enterprise-scale, cloud infrastructure challenges. We address the security considerations architects need to address when tasked with business expansion into the cloud, from the centralization of workforce identity and network security controls, to the secure usage of shared cloud-hosted data, and the design of effective logging strategies. 15 Hands-on Labs.

SEC554 will teach you all topics relevant to securing, hacking, and using blockchain and smart contract technology. The course takes a detailed look at the technology that underpins multiple implementations of blockchain, the cryptography and transactions behind them, the various smart contract languages like Solidity and Rust, and the protocols built with them like NFTs, DeFi, and Web3. The labs in the course provide the hands-on training and tools needed to deploy, audit, scan, and exploit blockchain and smart contract assets, as well as actively learn how to defend them and identify threats and threat actors using them for malicious purposes.

SEC556 facilitates examining the entire IoT ecosystem, helping you build the vital skills needed to identify, assess, and exploit basic and complex security mechanisms in IoT devices. This course gives you tools and hands-on techniques necessary to evaluate the ever-expanding IoT attack surface.

SEC580 will teach you how to apply the incredible capabilities of the Metasploit Framework in a comprehensive penetration testing and vulnerability assessment regimen. In this course, you will learn how Metasploit can fit into your day-to-day penetration testing assessment activities. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the Metasploit Framework far beyond how to exploit a remote system. You'll also explore exploitation, post-exploitation reconnaissance, token manipulation, spear-phishing attacks, and the rich feature set of the Meterpreter, a customized shell environment specially created for exploiting and analyzing security flaws.

SEC661 is designed to break down the complexity of exploit development and the difficulties with analyzing software that runs on IoT devices. Students will learn how to interact with software running in ARM environments and write custom exploits against known IoT vulnerabilities.