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SANS Security Leadership Essentials For Managers with Knowledge Compression™

This completely updated course is designed to empower advancing managers who want to get up to speed fast on information security issues and terminology. You don't just learn about security, you learn how to manage security. Lecture sections are intense; the most common student comment is that it's like drinking from a fire hose. The diligent manager will learn vital, up-to-date knowledge and skills required to supervise the security component of any information technology project. Additionally, the course has been engineered to incorporate the NIST Special Papers 800 guidance so that it can be particularly useful to US Government managers and supporting contractors.

Essentials topics covered in this management course include: Network Fundamentals and Applications, Power, Cooling and Safety, Architectural Approaches to Defense in Depth, Cyber Attacks, Vulnerability Assessment and Management, Security Policies, Contingency and Continuity Planning, Awareness Management, Risk Management Analysis, Incident Handling, Web Application Security, Offensive and Defensive Information Warfare, culminating with our Management Practicum. Only SANS top instructors are invited to teach this course and you will be able to put what you learn into practice, the day you get back into the office.