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Mike Pilkington

Senior Instructor Full-Time Researcher at SANS Research Operations Center (SROC)

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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Mike Pilkington

About Mike Pilkington

Mike has been an instructor for the SANS Institute since 2008. He is a co-author of FOR608: Enterprise-Class Incident Response & Threat Hunting and currently teaches FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis and FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics. In addition to teaching and co-authoring, Mike is a dedicated researcher and has published numerous articles for the SANS Forensics Blog. After spending much of his career working in large corporate environments in the oil & gas industry (he previously led and US incident response team at Shell), Mike joined SANS in 2017 as a full-time researcher in the SANS Research Operations Center (SROC). His current role focuses on R&D projects in support of the Digital Forensics and Incident Response program.