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Webinar Whether you are considering a career in cyber security or you already work in the industry, the 2023 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is a great way of combining festive fun and learning. Who knows, the skills you acquire this holiday season might even help you foil a nefarious hacker at Yuletide next year.

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Sponsored Post Where do the world's cyber security professionals get an opportunity to mingle and swap tips with their global peers while engaging in interactive, hands-on learning exercises that will help them stop cyber criminals in their tracks? That's the aim of the SANS Summits being held over the next few months, covering everything from pen testing and red/blue/purple team simulation to locking down the Internet of Things and Industrial Control System devices and how best to make use of threat intelligence to predict what hackers are likely to do next.

Protecting sensitive data and mission critical applications spread across multiple on- and off-prem cloud environments and different service providers is a tough gig for busy security professionals. The SANS 2022 Cloud Security Exchange on Thursday 25th August aims to do just that, providing an online forum for cloud providers, end user organisations and consultants to put their heads together and build better defenses for their cloud workloads.

Which is why SANS Institute endeavours to get its top class cybersecurity training out to as many people as possible. This in-depth session starts with the premise that the key question for security teams is not whether a breach will occur, but when.

These days, cybercriminals are living off the cloud, according to Katie Nickels, director of intelligence for Red Canary and a SANS Certified Instructor. "It's not enough to pay attention to the operating systems, the endpoints, said Nickels, speaking on a SANS Institute panel about the most dangerous new attack techniques at RSA Conference."Adversaries, a lot of their intrusions, are using cloud services of different types.

Over the past several years, we have seen more and more examples of vulnerabilities in cloud assets, cloud service provider outages, sensitive data disclosure, and breaches involving the use of public cloud environments. The 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon, released in the second quarter of 2021, noted that compromised external cloud assets were more common than on premises assets in both incidents and breaches.

Here's a little light at the end of the tunnel: a slew of new online and in-person events from SANS Institute that will help you sharpen up your cybersec skills or learn completely new ones. SANS Threat Hunting London 2022 runs from January 10 to 15, both in-person in London, and online, with seven courses from Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics, to in-depth programs such as Purple Team Tactics - Adversary Emulation for Breach Prevention and Detection.

Pulumi announced that SANS Institute is using the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Platform to streamline the delivery of applications and infrastructure, increasing the speed of delivery by 3X. Pulumi enabled SANS to adopt cloud engineering best practices so that it could reduce deployment times, simplify its cloud architectures and ultimately create a better experience for end customers. SANS now delivers cloud infrastructure using TypeScript and GitOps workflows, allowing it to use the power of modern languages and software engineering to deploy and configure infrastructure through a single platform.