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SANS Details Top Vulnerability Management Failures--and Best Practices--at Dallas Cyber Security Training Event
Learn What Works in Cyber Security from Top Practitioners

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training and certifications, today announced SANS Dallas 2020 taking place March 9-14 in Texas. The event features cutting-edge security training to help practitioners sharpen their skills and win the cyber battle. SANS course author and instructor, David Hazar (@HazarDSec), will share insight into how to attain vulnerability management success during his evening talk, "Top 5 Vulnerability Management Failures (and Best Practices)."

Hazar explains, "Vulnerability management has been around for over 20 years, yet it seems many of us still struggle with it. Knowing what one is doing wrong and how vulnerability management can be done better are two common challenges. Join me in Dallas as I share examples of the struggles many of my clients face and the best practices that can help organizations avoid these failures."

For those wanting to learn more about vulnerability management, SANS Dallas 2020 features the new MGT516: Managing Security Vulnerabilities: Enterprise and Cloud course. This five-day course covers why many organizations are still struggling with vulnerability management today and details how to solve these challenges.

SANS Dallas 2020 offers courses covering a wide variety of cyber security topics. In addition to his talk, Hazar will teach SEC540: Cloud Security and DevOps Automation. Additional courses include SEC401: Security Essentials Bootcamp Style, SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth, SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling, FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis and more.

For a complete list of courses and instructors, or to register for SANS Dallas 2020, visit:
https://www.sans.org/dallas-2020
 

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 35 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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