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SANS to Offer Introduction to Cyber Security Course at Las Vegas Training Event
Offers Aspiring Cyber Security Professionals a Way to Kick Start their Career

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, today announced the agenda for SANS Las Vegas 2019 (#SANSLasVegas) taking place January 28 - February 2 in Nevada. The event features hands-on immersion style course for security professionals at every level. For those looking to enter into a career in cyber security, SANS will offer its popular SEC301: Introduction to Cyber Security course.

"Always dreamed of a job in cyber security? There's no better time to start training for your dream job than the New Year," says SANS SEC301: Introduction to Cyber Security course instructor, Doc Blackburn (@DocBlackburn). "With the need for qualified and knowledgeable cyber security professionals growing every day, now is the time to commit to getting the best training and earn your GISF (GIAC Information Security Fundamentals) certification. Join me in my favorite city, Las Vegas, and I will teach you the concepts in cyber security to help kick start your career."

In addition to teaching the SEC301: Introduction to Cyber Security course, Blackburn will give an evening talk entitled Danger Stewards - Measuring Risk and Predicting the Future for Fun and Profit. This talk will detail what InfoSec professionals must do to convince the decision makers in their business to support security initiatives.

SANS Las Vegas 2019 features courses covering a variety of topics including cyber defense, ethical hacking, penetration testing, security management, secure DevOps, and ICS security. Included among the course offerings are two new courses SEC460: Enterprise Threat and Vulnerability Assessment and SEC530: Defensible Security Architecture.

For a complete list of courses and evening talks, or to register for SANS Las Vegas 2019, visit: https://www.sans.org/las-vegas-2019

About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of cyber security training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 60 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates a practitioner's qualifications via over 30 hands-on, technical certifications in cyber security. The SANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's degrees in cyber security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system--the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (https://www.sans.org)

SOURCE SANS Institute

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