SANS Las Vegas 2018 Security Training to Feature Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, today announced SANS Las Vegas 2018 taking place January 28 - February 2. The event will feature hands-on immersion style training courses that provide security professionals with the skills they need to protect an organization from the latest cyber attacks. For those wishing to take their penetration testing skills to the next level, SANS will offer its SEC642: Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Exploitation Techniques course.
According to Adrien de Beaupre (@adriendb), co-author and instructor of SEC642 and member of SANS' Internet Storm Center, "In light of the breach at Equifax, never has the importance of application security been more evident. Web application security testing assessments, done correctly and in a timely fashion, could easily have indicated the requirements for mitigation in this and many other examples. SEC642: Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Exploitation Techniques provides attendees with the knowledge and techniques to perform practical and necessary security assessments against modern applications. It is the follow on course after other introductory classes in web application security."
For more information on the SEC642: Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Exploitation Techniques course or to register, please visit: www.sans.org/u/y3W
SANS Las Vegas 2018 features courses for security professionals of all levels. Those new to information security will benefit from the SEC301: Intro to Information Security and SEC401: Security Essentials Bootcamp Style courses. More seasoned security professionals will benefit from courses like SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth, SEC511: Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations, and FOR508: Advanced Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting. Bonus evening discussions and a keynote address offering an Interactive Look at Cyber Crime & Today's Threat Landscape will round out the agenda.
For a complete list of courses, evening discussions, or to register for SANS Las Vegas 2018, please visit: www.sans.org/u/y41
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 cybersecurity training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cybersecurity training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via 30 hands-on, technical certifications in information 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. (www.SANS.org)
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