Cristian-Mihai VIDU
Certified InstructorCyber Security Consultant
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Cyber Defense

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Cristian-Mihai Vidu believes that great defenders are cultivated through curiosity, discipline, and practice. As a SANS Certified Instructor and seasoned IT Security Consultant based in Abu Dhabi, Cristian teaches SEC450: SOC Analyst Training – Applied Skills for Cyber Defense Operations, guiding students through the same processes he uses to detect, investigate, and contain threats in real-world environments. His goal is to help every student gain the confidence and technical fluency to perform at a professional level from day one.
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In this SANS First Look webcast, SANS Certified Instructor Cristian-Mihai Vidu examines a new approach to agentic AI for SOC support that embeds human investigative practices directly into automated workflows.

This will be an easy, fun and instructive walk through machine learning models, neural networks, all the way to LLMs, trying to see how we can fit and apply each one to our cyber defence challenges.

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