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Tailored to your lifestyle and learning style, SANS offers flexible training options for entry-level practitioners, seasoned professionals, growing teams, and everyone in between.
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Tour Before You Train: Free Course Demos

Free course demos allow you to see course content, watch world-class instructors in action, and evaluate course difficulty.

Most SANS courses are available in In-Person, Live Online, and OnDemand formats. Tour your course, then choose your desired training format.

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Train Your Way

Join us Live or OnDemand for immersive and hands-on cyber security training taught by leading industry experts. Whichever training option you choose, you’ll walk away with new connections, timely knowledge, and standout skills you can apply immediately.

  • Live Training: Train In-Person at events available in select locations or Live Online through an interactive livestream event
  • OnDemand: Train on the go with OnDemand through courses offered 100% online
Live Training OnDemand Training

For a limited time only, get a free GIAC Certification Attempt with an OnDemand course purchase. See details.

Certifications Worth Bragging About

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Why Certify with GIAC?
GIAC certifications are listed as preferred qualifications on thousands of job postings across the globe. That's because managers and infosec professionals know that GIAC certifications are a guarantee of critical skill mastery.
 Find a Certification
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Hands-On, Real-World Testing
CyberLive exams reflect real-world job tasks and assess skills in a live virtual machine environment. By challenging yourself with CyberLive, you'll prove to yourself and employers that you can solve hands-on challenges on day one.
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Preview the Exam Experience
Our newly designed exam interface includes improved features and functionality. Tour the enhancements designed with your GIAC exam experience in mind, and get a glimpse into what it's like to sit for a GIAC exam.
 Tour the Exam Interface
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Challenges That Put Your Skills Into Action

SANS Cyber Ranges

Practice and assess your skills through gamified cyber range challenges built by industry-leading SANS instructors. Gain real-world experience without real-world risk by practicing on live production equipment and systems.

Explore our comprehensive suite of hands-on cyber ranges, with options for individuals and teams, and get ready for game time.

Upcoming Cyber Ranges
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Cyber Degrees That Make an Impact

SANS Technology Institute — An NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

Whether you're new to cybersecurity or a seasoned InfoSec professional, SANS.edu provides specialized degreed programs to advance your skills while helping to meet the critical needs of the U.S. government, industry, academia, and research.

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Don’t Just Take Our Word for It…

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
The labs were very hands-on, and being able to manually go through these exercises gives me confidence that I can do these things in the future.
Crystal Cleaveland
- American Registry for Internet Numbers
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
The content is useful and I was able to tie the content back to my day-to-day tasks. The case studies allowed us to brainstorm and really think about how to respond in real-life scenarios.
Carla Ellerbe
- Capital One
Nobody else in the industry is as comprehensive as SANS or as up-to-date and knowledgeable. If you want to learn how to do your job right, I don’t think there's any better training out there right now.
Ronald Craft
- S-RM
I value the instant respect and credibility GIAC professionals receive. People know you’ve worked hard to obtain the certification and they recognize the critical skills and knowledge that come with it.
Ben Boyle, GXPN, GWAPT, GCIA
SANS.edu made the difference between my being an unemployed college graduate and a well-compensated cyber professional.
Cody Williams
Cyber and Strategic Risk Advisory Consultant - Deloitte
The decision to choose a master's degree from SANS.edu was the best one I have ever made. This transformed me into a true cybersecurity professional.
Viswanath Srinivasan Chirravuri
Software Security Director - Thales DIS USA
The gamified environment made it fun and the hints were a welcome feature that really helped make progress in a limited time frame.
Adam B.
- US Military
I'm a big fan of the overall presentation and content provided from this CTF. The use of the 'game' environment within the VM to drive the story was great.
Kristopher Littrell
- Acuity Insurance
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    Planning for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

    2022 Resource Toolkit

    This step-by-step toolkit will assist with your Cybersecurity Awareness Month efforts and participation while enabling you to quickly build and/or improve your Security Awareness Program using resources developed and proven by the SANS Security Awareness Community. These materials can be used for people new to awareness or those highly experienced looking to improve an existing awareness program.


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