In 2021 SANS Summits hosted 13 events, featuring 275 talks from top cybersecurity practitioners from all over the world. And as many of you know, SANS is ALL about capturing feedback. Evals! Evals! Evals! At each Summit, attendees rate the quality of the speakers' content and presentation skills.
Here were the top 10 rated Summit talks in 2021:
Keynote: Cobalt Strike Threat Hunting
Chad Tilbury, Senior Instructor, SANS Institute
SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit 2021
Simplifying and Demystifying Security in the Cloud
Jerich Beason, Chief Information Security Officer, Epiq
BIPOC in Cloud Security 2021
Keynote: Understanding the Effectiveness of Exploit Mitigations for Purple Teams
Stephen Sims, Fellow, SANS Institute, Fellow, SANS Institute
Purple Team Summit 2021
Threat Intel for Everyone: Writing Like A Journalist To Produce Clear, Concise Reports
Selena Larson, Cyber Threat Analyst
Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit
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Landing a Job: Resumes & The Application Process
Lesley Carhart, Principal Threat Analyst, Dragos
New to Cyber Summit 2021
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A River Runs Through IT: What Whitewater Rafting Taught Me About Incident Response
Stef Rand, Incident Response Consultant, FireEye/Mandiant
Blue Team Summit 2021
Killing Time
Tim Conway, Certified Instructor, SANS Institute
Jeff Shearer, Instructor, SANS Institute
ICS Security Summit 2021
Keynote: OSINT Efficiency: Extending & Building Tools
Chris Poulter, CEO, OSINT Combine
OSINT Summit 2021
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Kubernetes Goat – Interactive Kubernetes Security Learning Playground
Madhu Akula, Security Engineer, Miro
CloudSecNext Summit 2021
ICS Security Summit 2021 Keynote
Anne Neuberger
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology on the National Security Council
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