BETHESDA, Md., April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training and certifications, today announced the agenda for SANS Charlotte 2019 (#SANSCharlotte) taking place July 8-13 in North Carolina. Courses and evening talks will teach security professionals new skills to better anticipate security risks and quickly mitigate them. Included on the agenda is a talk by SANS Senior instructor and course author Keith Palmgren (@kpalmgren) entitled, "Everything You Ever Learned About Passwords is Wrong".
According to Palmgren, "There are approximately one million articles on the Internet today telling you how to do passwords properly. Unfortunately, most of them are based on thinking that made perfect sense in 1975. But it is not 1975, it is 2019 and the hacker community has innovated their password attacks well beyond the 1975 point. Yet, for some reason, we keep giving the same tired 1975 advice on passwords and that does not work. Join me in Charlotte to find out why 'Everything You Ever Learned About Passwords is Wrong', and more importantly, how to fix it for the future."
In addition to his evening talk, Palmgren will teach his SEC301: Introduction to Cyber Security course. Palmgren created this course for students with a basic knowledge of computers and technology but no prior cyber security experience. This is the ideal course for those wanting to make a career change to take advantage of the job opportunities in cyber security.
SANS Charlotte 2019 offers courses for security professionals at every skill level. Course topics include cyber defense, ethical hacking, penetration testing, critical security controls and ICS security. The skills learned during SANS hands-on immersion training can be implemented the day students return to work.
For a complete list of courses and evening talks, or to register for SANS Charlotte 2019, visit:
https://www.sans.org/charlotte-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
