John Hubbard

John is a Security Operations Center (SOC) consultant and speaker, a Senior SANS instructor, and the course author of two SANS courses, SEC450: Blue Team Fundamentals: Security Operations and Analysis and LDR551: Building and Leading Security Operations Centers. John previously taught additional SANS Cyber Defense courses such as SEC511: Cybersecurity Engineering: Advanced Threat Detection and Monitoring, and SEC555: Detection Engineering and SIEM Analytics. Through his years of experience as a Lead Cyber Security Analyst and SOC Manager for a major pharmaceutical company with over 100,000 employees and global operations, John has developed real-world, first-hand knowledge of what it takes to defend an organization against advanced cyber-attacks.