About SANS:

The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. With a deep rooted trust position and known for providing the highest quality information, SANS is revered as the global leader in cyber security training, certification and research. Security professionals are the foundation of the SANS community, sharing lessons and information and jointly finding solutions to the challenges they face.

The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. Its programs now reach more than 165,000 security professionals around the world. A range of individuals from auditors and network administrators, to chief information security officers are sharing the lessons they learn and are jointly finding solutions to the challenges they face. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners in varied global organizations from corporations to universities working together to help the entire information security community.

SANS is the most trusted and by far the largest source for information security training and security certification in the world. It also develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost, the largest collection of research documents about various aspects of information security, and it operates the Internet's early warning system

SANS training can be taken in a classroom setting from SANS-certified instructors, self-paced over the Internet, or in mentored settings in cities around the world. Each year, SANS programs educate more than 30,000 people in the US and internationally. To find the best teachers in each topic in the world, SANS runs a continuous competition for instructors. Last year more than 90 people tried out for the SANS faculty, but only five new people were selected.

SANS also offers a Work Study Program through which, in return for acting as an important extension of SANS' conference staff, facilitators may attend classes at a greatly reduced rate. Facilitators are most definitely expected to pull their weight and the educational rewards for their doing so are substantial.

Why SANS?

At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners in government agencies, corporations, and universities around the world who invest hundreds of hours each year in research and teaching to help the entire information security community.

What makes SANS courses the best investment for information security training?

They are full of important and immediately useful techniques that you can put to work as soon as you return to your office. That is the SANS Promise.

They were developed through a consensus process involving hundreds of administrators, security managers, and information security professionals and address both security fundamentals and the in-depth technical aspects of the most crucial areas of information security.

SANS features the best instructors and course authors in the industry. There are only 80 individuals - globally - currently qualified to teach as SANS Certified Instructors. A rigorous, multi-year trial process ensures that each SANS Certified Instructor combines deep, real-world experience with exceptional teaching skills.

SANS training courses prepare you for GIAC Certifications which has over 10,000 security professionals who have proven their skills and knowledge to meet our challenging standards. GIAC is unique in the field of information security certifications because it not only tests a candidate's knowledge but also the candidate's ability to put that knowledge into practice in the real world. Certification is available for our five- and six-day courses, and certificates are available for half-day, one- and two-day classes.

SANS also offers various formats to fit your schedule and training needs that include both classroom and online options.

SANS offers courses appropriate for all levels of experience. Whether you are new to computers or looking for advanced technical courses, we have what you need from half-day sessions to intense six-day bootcamp classes.

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