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SANS Cyber Security Training Formats

Intensive, immersion training courses designed to help you and your staff master the practical steps necessary for defending systems and networks.
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Multiple Training Options To Best Fit Your Schedule, Budget, and Preferred Learning Style

SANS courses come in three primary formats:
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OnDemand
Anytime, anywhere access to SANS high-quality training, OnDemand allows students to receive training from the same top-notch SANS instructors who teach at our live training events - bringing the true SANS experience right to your home or office. Pause, rewind, and replay lectures for 4 months. Reinforce and verify your understanding with quizzes and hands-on labs. All backed by support from GIAC-trained Subject Matter Experts who can answer the toughest questions.
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Live Online
Avoid travel and attend scheduled live interactive streaming sessions direct from your SANS instructor. Live Online features many of the activities that SANS students love at training events such as bonus topical presentations, cyber range challenges, networking via chat channels, and live access to top SANS instructors - all to make the student's online learning experience as fun and engaging as possible.
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In-Person
Experience SANS courses taught by world-renowned faculty in select locations during SANS In-Person training events. Featuring hands-on labs to practice your skills in a focused, immersive environment without distractions, plus opportunities to network with fellow cyber security professionals.
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Summits

Elevate your knowledge, skills, and industry connections at an upcoming SANS Summit.

As an attendee, you'll walk away with a fresh perspective and new tools that you can immediately leverage in your work. These two-day training events bring together cyber security practitioners and leading experts to share and discuss case studies, lessons learned, new tools, and innovative strategies to improve cyber security and overcome challenges in a particular focus area or industry.

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Private Training

Custom training for a private group of students anywhere in the world.

SANS Private Cyber Security Training program allows you to schedule private training sessions just for employees in your organization. Training is designed to meet your organization's needs and includes SANS' world-class courses and certified instructors.

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Not Sure Where To Start?

View our available training options by course. You can also explore our interactive Training Roadmap to find the right courses for your immediate cyber security skill development and for your long-term career goals.
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What Students Say About Their SANS Training Experience

The best part of SANS training is the absolute knowledge of the instructors. They bring real-world examples to the forefront and have their thumb on the pulse of current tactics used by attackers.
Jessie Prevost
- Trend Micro
The labs are giving me a chance to see the course content first hand and interact with it. It's doing a good job of letting me play with it and really seeing how the tools and methodologies work.
Ryan Moeller
- Eureka Strategic Consulting
I love OnDemand. My employer doesn't always have the funds available to send me to a live course and it has tons of material to digest, so being able to go at my own pace really helped."
John Ohmer
- Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
Having an SME instructor with tons of real-world experience makes the course material easy to digest, and the Live Online platform is the best platform I've experienced!
Jeremy Swanson
- ManTech
Summits are a great way to meet and talk to the trail blazers; the individuals who each in their own way help shine a light for the rest of the community.
Michael Decker
- ViaSat, Inc.
Private Training has been advantageous for our security training. The instructors have been great and the students enjoy being in class with colleagues that share concerns and duties for ongoing security projects.
Tonya Henderson
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