The Foundation of Accelerating your Cybersecurity Career - SANS@Mic Keynote w/ James Lyne

Cyber security is a fast-moving industry how do you build your foundation skills for sustainability and accelerate your progress? Technology trends, the tactics of attackers, the available tools, and the surface area of attack all change the skills and profession significantly year to year. In the last 10 years, the number of specialist roles have exploded, which is a wonderful opportunity for practitioners but also much harder to navigate. In this talk James Lyne, SANS CTO, will talk about the foundations for your career and the value of base technical skills. More and more our technology interactions are black box. Few of us are editing Autoexec.bat or Config.sys to make their game work and most of the time computers just work but that is eroding understanding invaluable to faster cybersecurity progression. Learning and refreshing how computer hardware works, how operating systems execute code, basic programming, and reversing skills these are skills that sit outside cybersecurity but can massively accelerate the grasp of students when it comes to even very advanced cybersecurity topics. Join this talk and walk through history with James Lyne, packed with live demos of foundation skills and how they apply to security. Shell hacks, debugging, programming and oh so many memes. SANS Foundations SANS Foundations is the best single course available to learn the core knowledge and develop practical skills in computers, technology, and security fundamentals that are needed to kickstart a career in cybersecurity. The course features a comprehensive variety of innovative, hands-on labs, and practical exercises that go far beyond what is offered in any other foundational course in cybersecurity. These labs are developed by leading subject-matter experts, drawing on the latest technology, techniques, and concepts in cybersecurity. The course provides students with the practical learning and key skills to empower future cybersecurity learning and professional development. Learn more at https://www.sans.org/sans-foundations/

Do you need to know programming to get into Cybersecurity - FAQ w. James Lyne, SANS Institute
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Do you need to know programming to get into Cybersecurity - FAQ w. James Lyne, SANS Institute

The 20 Critical Security Controls: From Framework to Operational to Implementation
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The 20 Critical Security Controls: From Framework to Operational to Implementation

CSS2017 Session 7 SANS Training - Incident Handling Process
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CSS2017 Session 7 SANS Training - Incident Handling Process

Practical Help Desk - Learn IT Fundamentals in 9 Hours
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Practical Help Desk - Learn IT Fundamentals in 9 Hours

Moving Past Just Googling It: Harvesting and Using OSINT | SANS@MIC Talk
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Moving Past Just Googling It: Harvesting and Using OSINT | SANS@MIC Talk

The Cycle of Cyber Threat Intelligence
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The Cycle of Cyber Threat Intelligence

Faster, Better, AND Cheaper: Improving security operations using open source tools
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Faster, Better, AND Cheaper: Improving security operations using open source tools

Ransoming Critical Infrastructure: Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline  - SANS Emergency Webcast
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Ransoming Critical Infrastructure: Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline - SANS Emergency Webcast

SOLARWINDS – A SANS Lightning Summit
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SOLARWINDS – A SANS Lightning Summit

Moving Past Just Googling It: Harvesting and Using OSINT | SANS@MIC Talk
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Moving Past Just Googling It: Harvesting and Using OSINT | SANS@MIC Talk

Security Operations (SOC) 101 Course - 10+ Hours of Content!
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Security Operations (SOC) 101 Course - 10+ Hours of Content!

RL for Agents Workshop - Deep Dive on Training Agents with RL and Open Source
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RL for Agents Workshop - Deep Dive on Training Agents with RL and Open Source

SANS Webcast - Trust No One: Introducing SEC530: Defensible Security Architecture
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SANS Webcast - Trust No One: Introducing SEC530: Defensible Security Architecture

Jfrog | Jfrog Artifactory | Jfrog Artifactory Tutorial | Artifactory Tutorial | Intellipaat
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Jfrog | Jfrog Artifactory | Jfrog Artifactory Tutorial | Artifactory Tutorial | Intellipaat

Virtual Session: NIST Cybersecurity Framework Explained
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Virtual Session: NIST Cybersecurity Framework Explained

SANS DFIR Webcast - Incident Response Event Log Analysis
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SANS DFIR Webcast - Incident Response Event Log Analysis

Attacking AI - Jason Haddix - NDC Security 2026
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Attacking AI - Jason Haddix - NDC Security 2026

Putting MITRE ATT&CK™ into Action with What You Have, Where You Are presented by Katie Nickels
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Putting MITRE ATT&CK™ into Action with What You Have, Where You Are presented by Katie Nickels

How To Use The Elastic Stack as a SIEM - John Hubbard
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How To Use The Elastic Stack as a SIEM - John Hubbard

What's It Like As A Red Team Operator? (w/ Chris M.)
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What's It Like As A Red Team Operator? (w/ Chris M.)