Free Cybersecurity Webcasts from SANS — Now Open for Registration!

SANS Institute has released its latest schedule of free, expert-led webcasts throughout 2025. Topics span the most critical areas of cybersecurity today:

Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Best practices & insights
ICS Security & Management of Change – Resilience and risk
Threat Intelligence & SOC Trends – Based on global survey data
Multicloud & GenAI Security – How organizations are adapting
Attack Surface Management – Stay ahead of hacker tactics

Flexible live or on-demand viewing
Earn CPE credits
Stay current on the latest in cyber

This is a great opportunity for pros at all levels to grow their skills and stay sharp in a fast-evolving field.

#CyberSecurity #SANS #ProfessionalDevelopment #FreeTraining #ThreatIntel #SOC #CloudSecurity
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https://view.email.sans.org/?qs=69e0423f47b163c10422e42e78f288b1ccd6a87e76506420328fda341009ee42763f21ede68cb31569b62cbbaa38aa3792a19b908f03af20cdaeca844e5fa9ec285d2bb1d239bbb0bfc583cd46493f984d8f5f21647ae6b7

Powershell Updating Local Admin Passwords Securely 2 of 3 http://dlvr.it/TJ3ccs via PlanetPowerShell #PowerShell #LocalAdmin #CyberSecurity #SANS

Can anyone recommend a good Cybersecurity Masters Degree program that's open to Canadians?

There aren't many options where I live, so I'm looking for remote options. To my knowledge there aren't by any Canadian universities. I only know of:

Northeastern University
WGU
SANS

SANS is crazy expensive; not sure about WGU and Northeastern. Any opinions? Or anyone know of any other options?

Another fun #python piece from #SANS #ICS

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/The+Unbreakable+MultiLayer+AntiDebugging+System/31658/

Attention:

Anyone living in the Southeastern United States, and interested in entering the #cybersecurity field, you have until February 25 to apply for the SANS Southeastern Cyber Workforce Alliance scholarship!

https://application.sans.edu/portal/aca

From the site:

"Program seats are open to all career changers and jobseekers not currently working in cybersecurity, but are focused on encouraging participation from:

Members of underrepresented communities, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Latino, Asian American, and Pacific Islander individuals

Women

Students or alumni from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)"

It involves an online application (above), an aptitude test, and some supporting documentation.

https://www.sans.org/mlp/secwa/

Boosts appreciated!

My first SANS CTI Summit was a blast! #CTI #SANS @sansforensics

Fedi people who have taken SANS courses: If you wanted to learn about Incident Response and your current knowledge level is "self-taught enough to do it, but not ready for FOR508" then would you take SEC504 or FOR500?

SEC504 seems like it would be good, there are some topics I'm familiar with, and an equal amount that I don't know a lot about.

FOR500 is the prerequisite for FOR508, and if I'm honest 95% of my workload is on windows devices.

Hey #infosec folks, I’m looking for feedback as to whether a #SANS Master’s is worth it. I’m in a 10-year tech role with a non-tech conglomerate doing data analytics, automation, and development, which seems to have plateaued. Seeking a potential career pivot. I’d need to sink about 40% of my annual salary into the tuition according to their site. Any thoughts? Much appreciated!

A new year and a better commitment toward achieving 100 days of blogging, consecutively, hopefully.

Over the past few days I set up SecurityOnion in a VLAN dedicated toward security applications. It joins Greenbone for performing credentialed scans via openvas and an all-purpose Kali VM for anything/everything.

While it wasn’t difficult to install SecurityOnion, I did have to do some […]

https://aronwarren.com/2025/01/02/restarting-100daystooffload-with-securityonion/

https://www.europesays.com/1716628/ KISS aurait-il eu le même impact sans le maquillage ? GENE SIMMONS intervient #auraitil #europe #Gene #impact #intervient #KISS #maquillage #meme #sans #Simmons

I just learned SANS put out some new research papers on December 5th. Looking forward to reading "Never Trust, Always Verify: Effectiveness of Endpoint Detection and Response Tools Versus Zero Trust Endpoint Controls in Enterprise Environments"

https://www.sans.edu/cyber-research/

There were interesting discussions (I listened in) at breakfast on the subject of VPN. I am very surprised that the "professionals" *cough* among the participants don't know something like Rethink, Mullvad etc. or that it is too tedious for them to set up a box.

But hey, not my problem, I'm not a "professional"! Sent via
#SANS #personalgrowth #training #vpns

As I’m up to date on the #SANS #Holiday #Hack , I spent the evening working on the C-Tea-F for @defcon instead

The internal wiring is much cleaner, purchasing a flat HDMI cable means the front glass now fits and it now has external USB support.

Wondering about a cheap PELE copy to ship it in.

#SHORTS - #Comic #Sans is my homeboy. #Font
https://youtu.be/bsoEydZIY3c

A colleague of mine recently did the #SANS #FOR572 class and mentioned that smbtimeline did run into errors parsing pcaps. I pushed an update which should fix that and add a few new things. Please reach out in case there are more issues. In case you have used smbtimeline in the past, please update.
https://github.com/00010111/smbtimeline #DFIR #bluetam

I know "don't look under the hood" is anaethma to any Linux user, but I feel better off not wondering why #SANS Slingshot Linux is still based on Ubuntu 18.04.

Seeing more and more of these fake "captcha" attacks, making victims copy a script and having them manually execute it locally. Boom! RCE.

"Fake GitHub Site Targeting Developers - SANS Internet Storm Center"
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31282

I'm bummed out to see that GIAC stopped doing the Gold certifications in 2022.

Back then, you could train for the certification, pass the test, and then level up by writing a peer-reviewed paper on a topic related to your certification.

It brought a lot of recognition to the people getting the certs and had an added bonus of extending your certificate's duration.

https://www.giac.org/gold-overview/