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Ryan Nicholson

Senior InstructorOwner at Blue Mountain Cyber, LLC

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Cyber Defense, Cloud Security

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Ryan Nicholson

About Ryan Nicholson

Ryan Nicholson is a Senior Instructor and course author at the SANS Institute, where he helps cloud security professionals build, monitor, and protect modern cloud environments. He is the author of SEC502: Cloud Security Tactical Defense and co-author of SEC541: Cloud Security Threat Detection, courses designed to help practitioners close the gap between attacker innovation and defender readiness.

Ryan’s passion for technology started early. In high school, he was already modifying school computers and calculators to do things they were not designed to do, building simple games out of curiosity. That interest led him to study computer science and intern at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), where he first saw the importance of protecting critical systems. After graduating, he began his career as a system administrator within the Department of Defense and quickly moved into a Network Security Officer role, shifting his focus from maintaining systems to defending them.

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