Award-Winning Author and Investigative Journalist Kim Zetter to Keynote the SANS DFIR Summit in Austin, Texas

BETHESDA, Md., April 11, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, today announced investigative journalist and Countdown to Zero Day author Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) will deliver the keynote at the SANS Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) Summit on June 7 in Austin, Texas. The SANS DFIR Summit & Training 2018 (June 7 – 14) is the most comprehensive event of its kind, bringing together an influential group of incident response and forensics experts, immersion-style courses, and industry networking opportunities all in one place.

Zetter is an award-winning investigative journalist and author who covers cyber security, cyber crime, cyber warfare, privacy and civil liberties. According to Summit Co-chair Phil Hagen, "Kim Zetter has conducted some of the most in-depth and important investigative reporting on information security topics. Her work researching Stuxnet, election security, and more has brought critical technical issues to the public in a way that clearly shows why we must continue to push the security industry forward. Her keynote will focus on the security of our voting systems, a clearly important matter given the significant shift toward electronic voting systems."

In addition to Zetter's keynote, the Summit agenda will include a presentation about the Shadow Brokers, the group that allegedly leaked NSA cyber tools, leading to some of the most significant cyber security incidents of 2017.  Jake Williams and Matt Suiche, who were among those targeted by the Shadow Brokers, will cover the history of the group and the implications of their actions.

For additional information on the SANS DFIR Summit & Training, including a complete line-up of speakers and a list of courses, or to register, please visit: www.sans.org/u/Czi  

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The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of cyber security training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 60 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via over 30 hands-on, technical certifications in cyber security. The SANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's degrees in cyber security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system--the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (www.SANS.org)

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