UK Cybersecurity Courses & Training: Online & In-Person

CyberThreat 2023 returns to London this November! The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and SANS Institute are once again partnering to bring you one of the biggest cybersecurity conferences in the UK. CyberThreat 2023 will be taking place on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st November at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith.

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Ransomware Defense Training—Gamified, Snackable Content

With 74% of breaches involving the human factor, it's clear that workforce end users represent a significant attack vector and your most promising defense against ransomware threats. Shake things up this Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Snack Attack - immersive training designed to engage learners while arming them with the tools to prevent ransomware from derailing your organization. See it in action!

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Empowering Cyber Security Practitioners & Teams

Launched in 1989 as a cooperative for information security thought leadership, SANS Institute helps organizations mitigate cyber risk by empowering cyber security practitioners and teams with training, certifications, and degrees needed to safeguard organizations and advance careers.

Find Training

Train with the best practitioners and mentors in the industry. Choose over 85+ cyber security courses, covering all specialties and experience levels.

Get Certified

Demonstrate your cyber security knowledge and capabilities with one of over 40 specialized GIAC cyber security certifications.

Scholarship Academies

Help secure a new career in cyber security with our scholarship cyber academies designed for veterans, women, minority groups, and more.

Earn a Degree or Certificate

Get started in cyber security or advance your InfoSec career with SANS.edu. Develop the skills you need and obtain the GIAC certifications employers want.

Why SANS Training?

World's Best Instructors

SANS instructors include the industry’s most accomplished professionals, having battled in the cyber security trenches firsthand, to enable the immediate and effective application of your coursework.

Hands-on Training

Our curriculum, with practical, hands-on exercises, includes the most comprehensive array of courses and post-training a rich ecosystem of resources and access to a community of the world’s most experienced cyber-professionals.

Most Valued Certifications

GIAC Certifications provide the highest and most rigorous assurance of cyber security knowledge and skill available to industry, government, and military clients across the world.

Multiple Training Options

The learning experience at SANS starts with letting cyber students train when, where and how they need to—live or on-demand, in-person or virtual.

Cyber Security Courses by Job Roles

Find your next course and certification. Over 80+ courses available across all experience levels with labs and exercises to practice your new skills immediately.

SANS Training Events in London

SANS London training events have been running for over 10 years. SANS will be running a London training event every month in 2023.

Take a look at what our students had to say about the SANS London Training Events.

Event	Timezone	Dates
SANS London October 2023	BST	Oct 9 - 14, 2023
SANS Manchester October 2023	BST	Oct 23 - 28, 2023
SANS SEC503 Online Ireland October 2023	GMT	Oct 30 - Nov 4, 2023
SANS London November 2023	GMT	Nov 6 - 11, 2023
SANS London December 2023	GMT	Dec 4 - 9, 2023
SANS London January 2024	GMT	Jan 8 - 13, 2024
SANS London February 2024	GMT	Feb 5 - 10, 2024
SANS London March 2024	GMT	Mar 4 - 9, 2024

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Student Case Studies

SANS has trained over 200,000 IT security professionals. Each and every one of them go home with the SANS promise that they're capable of applying their learnings directly when getting back to the office. Find out below what some of our Alumni have to say about their SANS training experience.

Lewis Philbey, E2E Assure

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Robert Lockwood, Fusion Cell

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Joseph Chmiel, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water

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Chloe Vowles, Fujitsu

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Robert Kano, E2E Assure

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Leo Kilpatrick, Fujitsu

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What Do Students Say About Their SANS Training Experience?

More than 75 of the FTSE 100 list employs cybersecurity professionals trained by SANS Institute. In the United Kingdom, organisations such as UK Government, HSBC, British Telecom, Airbus plus many more are training with us.

SANS training, if not the best, is one of the best in the industry. I love everything about this class, labs, and material. I hope to take other SANS classes after this.

Rafael Mation

- EY

Despite being new to the world of cyber security, this course has helped build upon and reaffirm my knowledge. I felt as though SANS truly values my development.

John Gount

- SEC401 Student - UK MOD

Extremely content rich and so valuable. Best course I have taken for real world application.

Matthew Schmolke

- SEC555 Student - BT

The instructor’s knowledge and teaching style is excellent and the content is pitched perfectly. I will be able to transfer the skills I’ve learned here into my daily work.

Christopher Jones

- Fujitsu

The entire SANS Live Online package - Slack, GoToTraining, VM's, tools, etc - are woven together to make this as close to live training as possible, and have been able to remain engaged throughout the day.

Andrea Doherty

- Dell Technologies

I'd recommend OnDemand as a good learning experience; you can train when you have free time. The instructor was able to relate real life scenarios and the quizzes help with self assessment.

Sandeep Maruge

- HSBC

Fantastic, passionate & engaging! The instructor supplemented the course content with experience related scenarios, improving the learning experience and making it extremely interesting.

Eliza-May Austin

- Visa, Inc.

SANS training is well-respected within the industry, and for good reason. The content of courses is typically up to date, relevant and provided in context.

Robert Kano

- E2E Assure

Airbus Cybersecurity

Airbus Cybersecurity is a well-known cybersecurity partner for many organisations and governments. Working together with SANS, they've trained their staff to some of the best practitioners in the industry. But also using other tools provided by the SANS Institute, they've managed to recruit, train and retain their cybersecurity teams. Practices they have also replicated to meet the needs of their own customers. Watch the case study video to learn more.

UK Based Initiatives

Cyber Discovery Programme

Cyber Discovery, a partnership between SANS and HM Government, was the UK’s number one programme for identifying and developing potential in the field of cyber security. HMG’s Cyber Schools Programme falls within the UK government’s CyberFirst initiative. Through 4 fun stages, it engaged and encouraged 13-18 year olds to get involved with a wide range of security challenges, tracking their progress as they improve and evolve.

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SANS UK Retraining Academy

SANS was selected to work in partnership with HM Government to develop and deliver a national UK Cyber Retraining Academy. The programme was tailored to meet the specific cyber security needs of today’s enterprises and government, and is part of a wider initiative to find, train and deploy new talent into the cyber security industry. The Academy received over 4,000 applications with the 55 accepted students coming from backgrounds such as ex-military, police, corrosion scientist, psychology and bar staff. All students graduated and an impressive 53 students graduated with both the GSEC and GCIH certifications. Upon final review of employment, 40 of these graduates were working in cyber security roles.