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SANS hosts training to address cybersecurity skills shortage

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Erik Van Buggenhout, Certified Instructor, SANS Institute

SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, intends to address the lack of qualified technical resources in the Middle East by conducting its ‘most hands-on course ever’ in Abu Dhabi from the 25th to 30th March, 2017.

According to SANS, the course, SEC561: Immersive Hands-on Hacking Techniques, is specifically designed for penetration testers, vulnerability assessment personnel, auditors, and operations personnel. “Businesses in the Middle East are heavily reliant on security technologies but these are only as good as the people configuring, utilising and maintaining them. Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment are particularly useful skills as they help uncover the most critical IT security flaws and thus enable organisations to make strategic investments that are optimised for their unique cybersecurity requirements,” explained Erik Van Buggenhout, Certified Instructor, SANS Institute.

SANS also highlighted that the training leverages the NetWars challenge infrastructure which lets students interact with brand new and custom-developed scenarios built just for the course. It entails over 30 hours of intense lab sessions that prepare attendees to identify, exploit and address the flaws in network configurations, passwords and authentication, web application code, Windows and Linux server configuration, antivirus systems, and iOS and Android devices. Van Buggenhout states that thanks to the extensive hands-on experience, “participants will be able to apply the skills they have learned the day they get back to their jobs”.

“In creating this course, we focused on getting as much practical, hands-on skill building into the classroom as possible. When students walk out of the class, they will have mastered over 100 new techniques for finding, exploiting and then fixing security flaws,” he says.

SANS Institute is already accepting enrolment for the 6-day training which will be conducted at the Hilton Abu Dhabi. Attendees can register for the course by visiting: https://www.sans.org/event/abu-dhabi-2017/

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