Christopher Crowley
Senior InstructorIndependent Consultant at Montance, LLC
Specialities
Cyber Defense, Offensive Operations
SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling
SEC504Offensive Operations
SEC595: Applied Data Science and AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Professionals
SEC595Cyber Defense
- GIAC Machine Learning Engineer (GMLE)
- 6 Days (Instructor-Led)
- 36 CPEs / 36 Hours (Self-Paced)
- Labs: 30 Hours of hands-on instruction
Virtual Events
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Apple CVE-2021-30860（FORCEDENTRY）について知っておくべきこと
タイトル：Apple CVE-2021-30860（FORCEDENTRY）について知っておくべきこと日時：9月24日(金) 午前11時(日本時間)スピーカー：Christopher Crowley AppleはCVE-2021-30860のゼロデイ脆弱性を公開、最新OSをリリースしました。iPhone iOS 14.8、macOS Big Sur 11.6、Security Update 2021-005 Catalina、Apple Watch watchOS 7.6.2への速やかなアップデートが必要です。 実際に脆弱性が悪用され、悪意のあるコードが実行された事例も報告されています。iOSやMacOSに対するこのゼロデイ攻撃からユーザーや情報システムを守るために、今すべきことを説明します。この脆弱性の影響を受けているかどうかを確認するための方法や脆弱性についての技術的な情報、Citizen Labsが進めている脅威分析などについても紹介します。 SANS シニアインストラクターであるChrisは、ネットワークセキュリティおよび管理を15年に渡り続けてきました。SANSでも数多くのコースを開発し、SOC構築の第一人者としても知られています。現在はワシントンDCでコンサルタントとして効果的なコンピュータネットワーク防御などを担当しています。ペネトレーションテストやセキュリティオペレーション、インシデントレスポンスやフォレンジック分析などの業務経験もあります。
WebinarDigital Forensics and Incident Response
- 24 Sep 2021
- 18:00 JST
- Christopher Crowley
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Siaran Web Penting SANS: What you Need to Know about CVE-2021-30860 aka FORCEDENTRY
Siaran Web Penting SANS: What you Need to Know about CVE-2021-30860 aka FORCEDENTRYJumat, 24 Sep 2021 9:00AM WIBChris Crowley Apple merilis CVE-2021-30860 dengan menyebutkan: semua versi iPhone iOS sebelum 14.8; versi macOS sebelum OSX Big Sur 11.6, Pembaruan Keamanan 2021-005 Catalina, dan Apple Watch sebelum watchOS versi 7.6.2 menjadi target yang saat ini aktif di eksploitasi. Kami akan membahas hal-hal yang harus segera Anda lakukan untuk melindungi pengguna dan sistem informasi Anda dari eksploitasi zero-day ini terhadap iOS dan MacOS. Kami akan membahas hasil temuan tersebut. Kami akan memberikan indikator tentang apa yang harus dicari untuk mengetahui apakah perangkat Anda telah terdampak oleh kerentanan ini, informasi terbatas tentang detail kerentanan, dan Threat attribution yang telah dikembangkan oleh Citizen Labs. Christopher Crowley, Instruktur Senior SANS, memiliki 15 tahun pengalaman mengelola dan mengamankan jaringan. Dia telah menulis banyak kursus dan merupakan salah satu ahli dalam membangun SOC yang efektif. Saat ini, dia bekerja sebagai konsultan independen di wilayah Washington, DC dan fokus dalam mengembangkan computer network defense yang efektif. Pengalamannya meliputi penetration testing, security operation, incident response, dan forensic analysis.
WebinarDigital Forensics and Incident Response- 24 Sep 2021
- 18:00 JST
- Christopher Crowley
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Managed Detection and Response: Optimizing External Expertise
As outsourcing and external management of MDR becomes more common, organizations need to know and understand what best practices look like. They also need to understand how to keep the human analysts engaged at the organization and within the MSSP. It’s enough of a challenge to establish then sustain technical interchange between two organizations. How will you maintain trusted professional interchange in a 24x7 operational environment?
WebinarCyber Defense- 5 Apr 2023
- 10:30 UTC
- Christopher Crowley, Adrian Chambers & Patrick Slattery
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2023 Survey Event | SOC
In its sixth year, the SANS 2023 SOC Survey explored SOC capabilities, deployment architecture, technology use and satisfaction, capabilities outsourced and satisfaction with outsourced providers. With survey data from active SOC managers and analysts, this webcast will cover the escalating movement to the cloud, orchestration, and tool changes. It explores the developing promise of deception, AI and machine learning. Key topics will include capabilities that compromise a SOC such as; technology deployed and satisfaction; staff composition, hiring, and retention; and SOC budgets.Register for this webcast now and be among the first to receive this whitepaper from SANS author and Senior Instructor Christopher Crowley.
WebinarCloud Security
- 13 Jun 2023
- 10:00 UTC
- Lonnie Best , Christopher Crowley & Bob Hansmann
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SANS Cyber Defence Australia 2023 Community Night - July 6
Presentation 1 - DevSecOps - We Are The Champions and 2023 Chris Edmundson, Associate InstructorPresentation 2 - 2023 SOC Survey - Highlights and Deep Drive presentedChristopher Crowley, Senior Instructor
WebinarIndustrial Control Systems Security
- 6 Jul 2023
- 18:00 AEST
- Chris Edmundson & Christopher Crowley
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Cyber Solutions Fest 2023: SOC & SOAR
Attend the Cyber Solutions Fest to explore implementations via the lens of people, process, and technology. There will also be highlights on managed service offerings and cloud deployments, as our IT deployment and the security applied to them becomes more distributed within our supply chain and vendor partnerships.There will be examples of lessons learned from customer deployments, as well as insights from their tool developers and designers about how they see the tools being deployed. The people building the next generation of tools will identify where they project the market to go. Attend this event to get all of this and much, much more!
WebinarCyber Defense- 25 Oct 2023
- 10:30 UTC
- Christopher Crowley
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SANS 2024 SOC Survey: Facing Top Challenges in Security Operations
In 2024, the SOC Survey continued to explore the detailed aspects of cybersecurity operations centers. The survey collected information on organizations’ capabilities, and what is outsourced. On this webcast, SANS Senior Instructor Chris Crowley examines survey results to understand how SOCs are architectured, favorite and frustrating technologies, staffing, funding, threat intel, and automation. Register for this webcast now, and you will automatically receive the companion white paper upon publication.
WebinarSecurity Awareness
- 12 Jul 2024
- 10:30 UTC
- Christopher Crowley, Shahar Ben-Hador , Josh Costa + 6 more
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Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2024: SOC & SOAR Track
For people who don't work in a SOC, or in cybersecurity at all, the image of a cybersecurity operations center is that of an all-seeing, all-knowing marvel of technology. For those of us who work in a SOC, we know the technology requires constant care and maintenance to preserve visibility into the systems we're protecting. If we can preserve that visibility, we then strive to deploy appropriate and effective detections. Once we've tuned those detections due to excessive false positives, we flexibly adjust them based on changing data. We also tune them to attempt to keep up with adaptive threats. If we can manage to preserve visibility, and implement good detections, we can start to hunt in the various troves of data for undetected threats. As we're hunting in the disparate data sources, we pursue the objective of fusion of information into that all-seeing, all-knowing marvel.Wherever you are on this journey from wizard behind the curtain to fully-integrated multi-cloud, machine learning, optimized security operations; you can learn something from your vendors and peers in this SANS Cyber Solutions Fest SOC & SOAR Track.
WebinarCyber Defense
- 7 Nov 2024
- 08:30 UTC
- Christopher Crowley
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Anomaly Detection within Machine Learning on Logs
GPTs (Generative Pretrained Transformers) based on Large Language Models are great for a lot of challenges. But they're not trained to find outliers within your log data.
WebinarArtificial Intelligence- 9 Jan 2025
- 20:30 GMT
- Christopher Crowley
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ログの機械学習における異常検知
大規模言語モデル (LLM)に基づくGPT（Generative Pretrained Transformers）は、多くの課題に対して優れた性能を発揮します。しかし、ログデータ内の異常値を見つけるためのトレーニングはされていません。
WebinarArtificial Intelligence- 27 May 2025
- 09:00 JST
- Christopher Crowley
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Anomaly Detection within Machine Learning on Logs
In this brief, informative, and useful session, Christopher Crowley will discuss the concept of a variational autoencoder, then show how you could implement this to train an autoencoder based on your logs.
WebinarArtificial Intelligence- 28 May 2025
- 10:00 UTC
- Christopher Crowley
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SANS 2025 SOC Survey Webcast & Forum
In 2025, the SANS SOC Survey will extend its detailed inspection of cybersecurity operations centers. By exploring the capabilities and outsourcing; architectures and cloud use; technologies; hiring and staffing; metrics and funding; threat intel; and automation we develop a global picture of the state of SOCs.
WebinarSecurity Awareness- 9 Jul 2025
- 10:30 UTC
- Christopher Crowley, Matt Muller & James Spiteri
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Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2025: SOC Track
When performing effectively, security operations is ongoing visibility into information assets and threats to them. Poise with a nuanced understanding of risk and capacity to act.Explore the balance of people, process, and technology in the always insightful SOC Track. We'll surely address what AI is and isn't doing to enhance operations; cover threat intelligence; staffing; capabilities of the SOC; and discuss the ongoing challenge of scarce resources.Join us to hear how others are succeeding and failing to maintain an operational balance between competing internal priorities and threats which seem to relentlessly improve.
WebinarCyber Defense- 5 Nov 2025
- 08:00 UTC
- Christopher Crowley