Chris Pizor

A veteran intelligence professional turned educator, Chris Pizor transforms decades of field-tested tradecraft into actionable lessons for the modern defender. Chris draws on three decades of cyber and intelligence experience to teach defenders how to think like adversaries and protect critical systems from real-world attacks. Through immersive labs and case studies, he equips students to move beyond tools to think critically, investigate thoroughly, and respond confidently under pressure. A Principal Instructor with the SANS Institute, he teaches SANS SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling and SANS SEC497: Practical Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). These courses fuse adversary tradecraft with modern investigative techniques to help security professionals detect, analyze, and disrupt threats before they escalate.