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SANS Instructors

SANS Institute Instructors are rock stars of the cyber security field, with a broad base of expertise in government and industry working as red team leaders, CISOs, technical directors, and research fellows. Use the search bar below to search for an instructor by name, or use the filter to narrow the instructors down by focus area.

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Lee Whitfield
Lee Whitfield

Lee Whitfield

Principal Instructor

Lee is a Principal for the Forensics Practice at Charles River Associates. He has covered a wide array of situations during his time as a forensic investigator, including child abuse, intellectual property theft, attempted murder, and much more.

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Brad  Wilkerson
Brad  Wilkerson

Brad Wilkerson

Brad Wilkerson is an Assistant Professor in Information Assurance at Eastern Michigan University and a Senior Cyber Security Consultant with OpTech, a technology consulting and business solutions firm based in Michigan.

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Mark  Williams
Mark  Williams

Mark Williams

Certified Instructor

In his 20+ years of experience, Mark Williams has worked in public and private sectors in the Americas, Canada, and Europe in the fields of security, compliance, and management.

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Terrence  Williams
Terrence  Williams

Terrence Williams

Certified Instructor Candidate

Terrence Williams is a SANS Certified Instructor and former Marine, having served between 2011 and 2019. As an instructor for FOR509, Terrence’s passion is teaching digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) and cloud security and loves seeing his students realize their cyber skills.

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Jake Williams
Jake Williams

Jake Williams

Senior Instructor

Jake is a highly accomplished information security consultant, co-author of SANS course FOR578, and instructor of more than eight SANS courses.

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Donald Williams
Donald Williams

Donald Williams

Principal Instructor

Donald has extensive experience in incident handling, intrusion analysis, and network auditing, and is a retired veteran with the U.S. Army.

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Benjamin Wright
Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright

Senior Instructor

Benjamin Wright was a practicing technology law attorney, SANS course author and educator, consultant for tech professional firms, Georgetown Graduate, and proud Texan.

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Joshua Wright
Joshua Wright

Joshua Wright

Fellow

As Senior Technical Director at Counter Hack and SANS Faculty Fellow, Joshua has advanced cybersecurity through ethical penetration testing, uncovering critical vulnerabilities across Fortune 500 companies and national infrastructure providers.

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Bojan Zdrnja
Bojan Zdrnja

Bojan Zdrnja

Certified Instructor

Bojan Zdrnja is a globally respected cybersecurity expert and CTO at INFIGO IS, renowned for his leadership in offensive security, red teaming, and his extensive contributions to the SANS Internet Storm Center and European cybersecurity initiatives.

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Lenny Zeltser
Lenny Zeltser

Lenny Zeltser

Fellow

Lenny Zeltser, CISO at Axonius, is a leader in developing resilient security programs. His invaluable tools, like REMnux, a widely used Linux distribution for malware analysis, have become industry standards in combating malicious software.

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Jon Zeolla
Jon Zeolla

Jon Zeolla

Certified Instructor

Jon is the founder and CEO of Zenable, a tech company that uses a governance-first, fully automated approach to streamline cloud-native technology adoption and security. He also co-founded Seiso, a cloud native technology consulting company.

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