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Ed Skoudis

FellowPresident at SANS Technology Institute

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Ed Skoudis

About Ed Skoudis

Ed Skoudis is the President of the SANS Technology Institute, which has been designated an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense and whose students are multi-year winners of the National Cyber League competition. Ed is also a SANS Fellow and the Founder of the Counter Hack cybersecurity consultancy and cyber range-building company.

Widely recognized for shaping modern penetration testing and incident response training, Ed is the original author of SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling and SEC560: Enterprise Penetration Testing, and translates decades of frontline breach investigation and adversary emulation into hands-on learning experiences, with over 40,000 students taking his cybersecurity courses over the past 25 years.

Ed leads his team in the construction of large-scale cyber ranges, including NetWars, the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge, and other cyber ranges, which directly influence SANS course labs, enabling students to practice real-world attack and defense techniques in safe, high-fidelity environments. Ed’s contribution to the U.S. military personnel’s cybersecurity training was recognized with the Military Cyber Professional Association’s Order of Thor award.

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