SANS Institute

The SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Networking, and Security) is a trade name owned by the for-profit Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies. SANS provides computer security training, professional certification, and a research archive. It was founded in 1989.

ANS Conferences

When originally organized, SANS Conferences were like most traditional technical conferences, being a forum for technical presentations. By the mid-1990s, SANS evolved into a more commercial format offering events that combined training with tradeshows and vendor oriented marketing. Recently SANS has offered webcasts and email newsletters developed in conjunction with security vendors. The actual content behind SANS training courses and training events are still "vendor agnostic." Vendors can not pay to offer their own official SANS course, although they can teach a SANS "hosted" event via sponsorship.

Most of the training SANS provides is tied to the SANS operated GIAC Security Certifications.

ANS Technology Institute

SANS has recently branched out into the SANS Technology Institute, which is a degree-granted educational organization, based on SANS training. SANS continues to offer a great deal of free security content via the SANS Technology Institute Leadership Lab at http://www.sans.edu/resources/securitylab and IT/Security related leadership information at http://www.sans.edu/resources/leadershiplab

Publications

SANS instructors have also contributed to many security books:
* "Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software" (ISBN 978-0321477897)
* "Blogging for Business" (ISBN 978-1419536458)
* "Hackers Beware: The Ultimate Guide to Network Security" (ISBN 0-7357-1009-0)
* "Hiding in Plain Sight : Steganography and the Art of Covert Communication" (ISBN 0-471-44449-9)
* "Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems" (ISBN 0-7357-1232-8)
* "IT Ethics Handbook" (ISBN 1931836140)
* "Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking" (ISBN 978-1597491662)
* "Malware: Fighting Malicious Code" (ISBN 0-13-101405-6)
* "Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses (2nd Edition)" (ISBN 0-13-148104-5)
* "Know Your Enemy: Learning about Security Threats (2nd Edition)" (ISBN 978-0321166463)
* "Network Intrusion Detection" (ISBN 0-7357-1265-4)
* "Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook" (ISBN 0-7357-1008-2)
* "Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit" (ISBN 978-1597490993)
* "What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting" (ISBN 978-1419584350)

ee also

*Information Security Forum
*Internet Storm Center

References

External links

* [http://www.sans.org/ SANS Institute]
* [http://isc.sans.org/ SANS Internet Storm Center]
* [http://www.sans.edu/ SANS Technology Institute]
* [http://www.giac.org/ GIAC Security Certification]
* [http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/ucc-charter/DisplayEntity_b.asp?EntityID=T00178185&EntityName=SANS+INSTITUTE&TabNum=1 SANS Institute trade name information from Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation]