Hot IT security skills: how to raise your professional bar

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What the SANS Institute can do for you

As a professional in the wide wide world of IT security, finding the best information and education is not always easy. You look around, but still, you aren't sure. Getting those hot IT security skills means you have to consider price, location, timing, and value. It's important that you get top quality information security skills based education, developed and taught by some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the world. And your training has to to pay off in the form of solid skills. At the SANS Institute we focus on giving students exactly what they want and need. We're so confident that our courses are the very best, we promise you'll be able to put your new security skills to work on your first day back at the job following a training event.

Here I'll focus on making sure that readers have up-to-date information on new information security training and upcoming events at a glance. So check in frequently on how to keep your skills hot and your professional bar at its highest. After all, if you want to get the sweet job and make the bank that goes with it, having the education and certification is not only necessary, but worth the money you'll spend to get it.

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Coming soon: SEC565 Data Leakage Prevention - In Depth (4 day course)

You'll learn how to detect data leakage risks & identify safeguards, how to: address your organization's requirements for protecting confidential information, create a DLP team, conduct an information risk assessment, analyze possible weaknesses in technical systems, and recommend effective approaches for safeguarding systems and processes.

The Debut will be held in New York details coming soon.

Our NEW Short Course Delivery Program 

Who says Short can't be a beautiful thing?

SANS is known for their incredibly deep 5 - 6 day courses. It's been said that taking a long SANS course is like drinking from a fire hose.

Well, we think that's a compliment....

At the same time, we recognize that quality doesn't have to come in a big package. Sometimes, great quality comes in a really small box, as is the case with our short courses. With these courses we start with the same criteria we use in accepting long courses and require the same stringent effort by the author, and they undergo the same strict review processes.

Don't underestimate the quality and usefulness of a short course (defined as any course under 4 days).

To help more students take advantage of our short courses, we are now expanding the field via the Short Course Delivery Program. This growing delivery mechanism brings our short courses to a community near you. Why is this important? Because this discounted program saves you time, money, travel, and time away from work while still giving you top skills that you get to put to use your first day back on the job.

It's a new program that we're working hard to expand via instructor recruitment. So, if you want to find out if there's an instructor near you, contact me with your location and I'll let you know. If there isn't currently, I'll set to work to find out if we have a SANS instructor in your area qualified to teach the class.

You asked for it 

You got it

In two different surveys, students told us they wanted a management class that wasn't just for managers, but rather for everyone. We were told students wanted a class that would help them communicate effectively, write better reports, and give professional presentations.

No matter your job description, if you need to do any of these things in your job, Dave Hoelzer, SANS Fellow and a mentor to many new authors, has written a stellar one day course that will help you improve these necessary skills.

Look for it! 

Our upcoming courseware

In our efforts to ensure we are keeping up with arming you to defend yourself, your networks, and your companies, we are constantly at work with leaders in the field to produce new courseware.

To find out about what's new on the market, what's coming up, and what's in development, visit our New Course Development page. There you'll get the 411 on all that's going on with new SANS course. You'll learn what's just come out, what's coming soon, and get a first look at what's in development. Bookmark this page if you want to keep up.

Here's a list of what's coming at you very soon . Find more at the SANS New Course Development page.

SEC 520: Database Activity Monitoring Systems
Author - Paul Wright

SEC 565: Data Leakage Prevention - In Depth
Authors Megan Restuccia & Chris Cronin

SEC 567: Power Packet Crafting with Scapy
Author Judy Novak

SEC566:20 Critical Security Controls - In Depth
Authors Eric Cole and James Tarala

MGT 305: Technical Communication and Presentation Skills for Security Professionals
Author Dave Hoelzer

SANS Institute Major Training Events 

National, local, and international training events and summits focused on bulding Hot IT security skills.

Want to find out about sunny SANS San Diego 2009 or our annual sizzling SANSFIRE event?

Maybe you're more of the Summit kind of person? Or are you one of those kind of students who wants the education but prefers learning it all from the comfort of your own space @Home?

Whatever your needs, SANS has a training method that will work for you, your family, your employer, and your budget.

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