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Erik Van Buggenhout

Senior InstructorCo-Founder & Partner at NVISO

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Offensive Operations

Erik Van Buggenhout

About Erik Van Buggenhout

Erik Van Buggenhout is a co-founder of NVISO, a Belgian cybersecurity firm, as well as a SANS Senior Instructor and lead author of SEC599: Defeating Advanced Adversaries - Purple Team Tactics & Kill Chain Defenses and SEC699: Advanced Purple Teaming - Adversary Emulation & Detection Engineering, as well as coauthor of SEC560: Enterprise Penetration Testing. Prior to NVISO, Erik spent five years at a Big 4 firm, where he evolved into a subject matter expert for the EMEA region. He has been involved with SANS since 2009: first as a Mentor, then working his way to Community Instructor in 2012, becoming a Certified Instructor in 2016 and a Senior Instructor in 2020.