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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.
Luckily, SANS Institute is going to be girdling the globe over the coming months, bringing you top-notch cyber-security events with a personal touch. SANS Sydney 2021 runs from September 6 to 11, with 11 courses on offer, each of which will take you deep into key cyber-security topics, and all of which offer some level of in-person interaction.
SANS Institute has continued to deliver top notch security training online and expanded its curriculum to take account of new threats and attacks. You might be very interested to know that SANS Institute is starting to bring back live, in-person training for its cybersecurity events.
In-depth specialist training is an essential part of this, but it's also important to step back and take a wider view now and again, taking in emerging threats, new techniques, and getting a reality check on how your peers deal with the same problems facing you. First up on this year's schedule is Purple Team Summit and Training 2021, which runs from May 17 to May 28, on US Eastern Time.
Luckily SANS Institute, one of the most venerable names in security training, has brought its world beating events online, allowing you to continue to take its live courses, virtually. So perhaps what you need is SANS OnDemand: Self-Paced Online Training.
You'll be pleased to know that SANS Institute has two events coming in the New Year that will enable you to skill up with some of their finest tutors, virtually of course, and all on European time. If you want to take things at a more leisurely pace, or just want to fit your training around work and family, check out DFIR Multi-Week 2021, which runs from February 1 to February 12, again, all online.
The SANS Institute says the recently disclosed security incident involved phishing emails being sent to several of its employees. Following the initial disclosure of the security incident, SANS published indicators of compromise associated with it, revealing that, on July 24, the attackers sent a phishing email to multiple employees, although only one of them fell to the trick.
The breach compromised 28,000 records, exposing such data as names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and email addresses. On Aug. 6, security training firm SANS Institute discovered a data breach of approximately 28,000 records as the result of one successful phishing attack against a single employee.
Cybersecurity training organisation the SANS Institute suffered the loss of 28,000 items of personally identifiable information after a staffer's email account was accessed by malicious people. In a statement on its website, SANS said: "Aside from the affected user, we currently believe that no other accounts or systems at SANS were compromised."