SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling

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SANS Cyber Ranges are interactive, hands-on learning exercises created by renowned SANS faculty. Each range offers replicated networks, systems, and application in a safe, isolated environment where individuals and teams can develop their skills and gain experience without compromising a live production environment.
Provide hands-on technical training to ensure skills are current to the constant changes in the information security industry.
Personalized assessment enables managers to make informed decisions on cybersecurity training forecasts for teams and individuals.
Scorecard that provides insight into a participant's skill level in a cybersecurity discipline. Identify and recruit staff with an aptitude for information security roles.
Earn up to 12 CPE credits toward GIAC certification renewal.
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SANS NetWars offers a suite of six advanced ranges suitable for all skill levels, with a compelling storyline for interactive learning. The multifaceted, real-world challenges emphasize the in-depth practical application and evaluation of essential cybersecurity skills, empowering practitioners to excel in their field. Explore the focus areas below.
The most comprehensive of the NetWars ranges, this ultimate multi-disciplinary cyber range powers up the most diverse cyber skills in a collaborative environment.
Focused on preventing, analyzing, and defending against complex real-world attack scenarios, including brute-force attacks and ransomware campaigns.
Focused on digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, and malware analysis, this tool-agnostic approach covers everything from low-level artifacts to high-level behavioral observations.
Focused on the technologies used in electrical generation and distribution systems, the challenges are themed around power system scenarios, protocols, and architectures.
Focused on securing medical technology, the challenges include device vulnerability scanning, web application assessments, and responding to ransomware threats.
Focused on factory machinery operations, this experience brings players onto the factory floor, exposing them to the challenges of detecting and defending physical equipment and manufacturing components from cyberattacks.
The SANS Cyber Ranges team can customize a range to meet your needs, define learning objectives, develop a scorecard, and configure the content and platform.
Schedule a MeetingSANS Cyber Ranges offers two hands-on training solutions designed with challenges and hints that support continuous knowledge and skill development for you or your team. Learn more about what program fits your needs.
Join SANS Skills Quest – Core Edition to help computer scientists and cryptologists of the past solve mysteries. They will test our defensive, offensive, forensic, and threat intelligence aptitude. Train at your own pace for 6 or 12 months.
Take on the role of cyber investigator and uncover key clues from the evidence. The range guides you through a series of challenges to reveal key facts within files, processes, and common programs. Train at your own pace for 4 months.
Excellent instructors and content. NetWars is a must to reinforce your skills.
NetWars is challenging for all levels of expertise, has great hints if you get stuck, and promotes continuous education.
These challenges were so much fun. Really covered so many different topics. Love how you were forced to use tshark and MySQL. Made you have to learn or relearn topic again.
For anyone that hasn’t taken part in NetWars before, I can tell you that it's brilliant and lots of fun.
Experience NetWars in a competitive environment with NetWars Tournament, a 6-hour hands-on practice competition.
Ed is the founder of the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum and Counter Hack; leads the team that builds NetWars, Holiday Hack, and CyberCity; and is President of the SANS Technology Institute.
Learn moreAndrew Laman brings over 25 years of experience in threat detection and incident response. As A4 InfoSec founder and a SANS Senior Instructor, he’s widely respected for advancing network defense through hands-on leadership and real-world training.
Learn moreTim serves as the Technical Director of ICS and SCADA programs at SANS, and he is responsible for developing, reviewing, and implementing technical components of the SANS ICS and SCADA product offerings.
Learn moreChristopher is a senior security analyst for Counter Hack and Operations Officer (S-3) for the Army National Guard's 91st Cyber Brigade. Through his work, he shares his unique insights into cyber security threats to prepare and inspire students.
Learn moreSimon Vernon is the Head of Research and Development for SANS Institute and a SANS Certified Instructor for SEC488: Cloud Security Essentials.
Learn moreLodrina became a SANS instructor to help instill solid foundational skills, practices, and techniques in students to advance their understanding of Digital Forensics, as well as to advance the overall DFIR profession.
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