SANS Nashville Winter 2026

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January 12-17, 2025 | In Person & Virtual (CST) Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University & Virtual 2555 West End Avenue Nashville, Tennessee Innovative Courses, Industry-Leading Instructors Whether you’re refining your cybersecurity skill set or exploring cutting-edge solutions, you’ll find the right course here. Explore tracks on: Cybersecurity Tactics & Strategy Advanced Control Implementation Building a … Read more

The Rising Threat of Mobile Phishing Attacks: Why Your Organization Needs to Prepare

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Shigraf Aijaz, Cybersecurity Writer and Journalist,

Mobile Phishing Attacks

The growth of mobile devices in the workplace has turned mobile phishing into a significant opportunity for malicious actors, and it’s therefore a growing concern for organizations. With mobile phishing, the attacker sends links to phishing websites via SMS messages, where they ask for your credentials. One study estimates that 75% of phishing websites specifically … Read more

Insider Attacks: How Prepared Are You?

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Karthika Surendran, Product Marketer, ManageEngine

Insider Attacks

Insider attacks often catch organizations by surprise because they’re tricky to spot. Banking on reactive solutions like antivirus software or a patch management solution to stay abreast of such attacks is not very wise. Understanding what exactly contributes to the increasing number of insider threats and addressing these factors is the only way to secure … Read more

Proving a Negative

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James Everett Lee, Chief Operating Officer, The Identity Theft Resource Center

KBA and Data Breaches

Proving there is a “you” has never been easier; proving you are the only you, not so much. We learned in math class in high school that you cannot prove a negative. Or to be more precise, we learned that you cannot solve a negative proof. As a result, in math and logic, we spend … Read more

VPN vs Zero-Trust Network Access

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Lauren Abshire, Director of Content Strategy, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) has provided remote workers with privacy while they are connected to a public connection for many years. While zero-trust is newer, it has proven to be quite effective. Especially in an age where remote work continues to increase, as does cyber-attacks. Noticeably, on VPNs. This begs the question, which is more … Read more

Microsegmentation and a Zero-Trust Network

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Caleb Townsend, Staff Writer, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

Server room, Microsegmentation in a zero-trust system

We are currently in an unfortunate situation where universally, every business model predicates itself around connectivity. In fact, to be on the edge of innovation is to connect, to everything, before anyone else connects. With each new development, security suffers immediately. The incredulity that is always met with a new Facebook data breach is going … Read more

Identity of Things: IoT Security

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Tricia A. Howard, ,

Hand holding up interconnected city, innovation, IoT security, blue background, abstract

It is no secret that IoT Security (or lack thereof) has taken the industry by storm – and with good reason. Thanks to a couple of newsworthy incidents involving the (in)famous Internet of Things, most organizations are rethinking their overall IoT security posture. However, that is a daunting task to master. With such a variety … Read more