Johannesburg, 18 May 2021
The world creaked under the corona pandemic last year and many of us felt like a Russian State Circus from time to time as we tried to keep the plates of work, housework and home schooling for the children spinning. Yet it was not all doom and gloom. Digitalisation has been advancing rapidly and presented opportunities that might otherwise have been years away.
SANS is famous for its physical training sessions where professionals from all over the world are brought together for a few days to learn from and with each other, that too stopped in mid-air when corona came crashing in. But, not for long. With Online Training, SANS OnDemand and Live Online, the famous courses quickly resumed, with added benefits!
SANS offers a slew of courses that feature live interaction with human trainers that go hand in hand with many certifications from GIAC who have also moved their offering online with proctored exams available.
SANS Training Formats
Live Online – Live, interactive streaming sessions with your instructor, offered globally in one or two week options.
OnDemand – Self-paced training with four months of 24/7 access to your course in the SANS OnDemand platform
SANS Live Online focuses on the interactive element of cyber security training, with sessions running completely live, with hands-on virtual lab environments and networking via the dedicated slack channels that exist for each course. Most importantly, Live Online sessions are all focused around the presence of a real, live SANS instructor with core knowledge of your study area, who can interact personally with course members in real-time.
SANS has designed the courses to be flexible and fit around our unpredictable home-working calendars. With courses available for completion in one or two weeks plus four months of included access to the archive materials of your chosen course, and even an extended archive of your classes in MP4 format, you can supplement your working experience beyond the live sessions with this panoply of extra resources.
Live Online courses range from basic introductions to cyber security, through security operations and analysis concepts all the way to more specialist training in areas such as securing Windows Powershell, tactical analytics with SIEM and advanced pen testing.
When an educator is offering a course called “Metasploit Kung Fu”, you know you’re in safe hands.
With all that said, sometimes the demands of a day job mean that it’s too hard to fit live training around your schedule, that’s why SANS also offers SANS OnDemand. This highly flexible option is available for 55 of its cyber security training courses, all of which are taught using recorded instruction from SANS’s world leading instructors, along with hands-on labs and exercises. But you’re not left entirely on your own - you’ll also get live chat with GIAC certified subject matter experts.
SANS has been delivering security training on an on-demand basis for some years now, giving both seasoned and newbie security pros a way to get the training they want at a time and a pace that works for them. It now has an added layer of flexibility, in the shape of the SANS OnDemand app for iOS or Android. So, you really can access content wherever, as well as whenever you want. And with the ability to download content – as well as rewind and replay and pickup on another device – you can even study when WiFi or wireless is less than optimal…with a little planning, of course.
Right now, the OnDemand course line-up includes four brand spanking new courses: Cloud Security Essentials; Public Cloud Security AWS, Azure and GCP; Digital Forensics Essentials; and Purple Team Tactics – Adversary Emulation for Breach Prevention and Detection.
Once you sign up for a SANS OnDemand course you’ve got four months to complete it, with quizzes all the way through to benchmark your progress.
With attacks on the rise, it’s never been more important for cyber security professionals to stay vigilant. With these training options, you can ensure you get the training you need, all from the comfort of your own home.
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