SANS Instructors

After a malicious attack in his lab, Ross pivoted from neuroscience to cybersecurity, driven by a passion for safeguarding digital assets. He has dedicated over three decades to fortifying enterprise defenses and mentoring future cyber leaders.

Carlos Cajigas is a digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) professional with more than two decades of experience spanning both law enforcement and the private sector.

For Ovie Carroll, digital forensics is all about the hunt for evidence in digital places that are hiding critical clues, followed by deep analysis to prove something that the evidence was never intended to prove.

Aaron is a Senior Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and teaches SANS SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, and SEC588: Cloud Penetration Testing.

Chris Dale is the Founder and Chief Hacking Officer at River Security. Chris has a background in System Development, IT-Operations and Security Management, and uses his hacker skills to demonstrate risk via Offensive Services and Incident Response.

Ted Demopoulos, SANS Principal Instructor and author of Infosec Rock Star, leads SEC401: Security Essentials–Network, Endpoint, and Cloud. He blends decades of consulting insight with a hands-on, student-focused approach that makes cybersecurity real.

With over 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Max has garnered insights spanning risk and compliance, threat hunting, incident response, and SOC operations. As a trusted advisor, he has served governments, large corporations, and businesses.

Mick Douglas has over 10 years of experience in information security and is currently the Managing Partner for InfoSec Innovations. He specializes in PowerShell, Unix, Data Visualization, Hardware and Radio Hacking.

Monta Elkins is currently "Hacker-in-Chief" for FoxGuard Solutions, an ICS patch provider. A security researcher and consultant; he was formerly Security Architect for Rackspace, and the first ISO for Radford University.

Russell is a Principal Consultant and Co-Founder of Cyverity with extensive cybersecurity leadership experience. As former CIO and CISO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, he brings real-world expertise to his role as SANS Principal Instructor.

Bryce provides highly specialized ethical hacking and cyber security consulting services to clients around the world and teaches thousands of cyber security professionals how to defend against advanced adversaries.

Timothy Garcia works as an Information Security Engineer for a Fortune 100 financial institution, where he provides security consulting to project teams to ensure security of IT operations and compliance.