SANS Boston Security Training Event to Detail How to Protect Industrial Control Systems

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, today announced the agenda for SANS Boston Spring 2018 taking place in Massachusetts March 25 – 30. Included among the course line-up is ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials which will arm security professionals and control system engineers with the cyber security skills they need to defend national critical infrastructure. 

According to Monta Elkins (@montaelkins), Hacker-in-Chief FoxGuard Solutions and a SANS ICS410 course instructor, "Want a real cybersecurity challenge? In Industrial Control System security you'll face the newest, incredibly sophisticated, most well financed and executed nation state sponsored attacks on the planet. How's that grab you? Want to learn how to defend these systems? Join me at the SANS Boston Spring ICS410 class where I will share the cyber security concepts needed to defend your critical infrastructure."

For additional information on the ICS410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials course or to register, please visit: www.sans.org/u/zNL  

SANS Boston Spring 2018 features hands-on immersion style training courses covering a variety of topics including cyber security, security management, incident response and digital forensics and industrial control system. Some of the courses offered include SEC401: Security Essentials Bootcamp Style, SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, FOR508: Advanced Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting, and MGT512: SANS Security Leadership Essentials for Managers with Knowledge Compression™. SANS Faculty Fellow, Rob Lee (@robtlee), will deliver the keynote address Welcome Threat Hunters, Phishermen, and Other Liars.

For a complete list of courses, or to register for SANS Boston Spring 2018, please visit: www.sans.org/u/zNQ

About SANS Institute
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 cybersecurity training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Renowned SANS instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cybersecurity training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via 30 hands-on, technical certifications in information 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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