SANS Instructors

Jorge Orchilles currently serves as a Senior Director at Verizon, where he leads the Readiness and Proactive Security Team. His team specializes in Exposure & Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, Red Team, Purple Team, and AI Red Team.

Mark Orlando brings extensive cybersecurity leadership experience from the Pentagon, White House, and Fortune 500 sectors. As Bionic Cyber's CEO, he's a respected security operations expert with military and academic credentials.

Jason Ostrom has revolutionized cybersecurity by developing open-source tools like PurpleCloud and Automated Emulation, enabling scalable adversary emulation in cloud environments.

Kevin is a seasoned red team professional experienced in running attack simulations across different industries, including finance, retail, manufacturing, and energy sectors. His focus is to develop offensive capabilities and tooling for engagements.

Keith is a cybersecurity professional with 35+ years of experience specializing in IT Security. He has taught over 25,000 students and authored 22 courses, seven of which the American Council on Education certified as eligible for college credit.

Dr. Sorot holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science, a Master's degree in information technology and a PhD, with a thesis focused on intrusion-detection systems (IDS). He has been active with SANS since 2009 and has earned several certifications.

Justin has a master’s in cybersecurity, holds the GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) certification, and has amassed more than 15 years of experience evading cyber threats for commercial and government stakeholders.

Dean Parsons, CEO of ICS Defense Force, has established comprehensive ICS security programs and leading industrial-grade incident responses across sectors like telecommunications and energy. He wrote the pivotal SANS ICS Cybersecurity Field Manuals.

Larry has revolutionized embedded device security with decades of hands-on offensive research, co-authoring SANS's flagship wireless and IoT penetration testing courses, and pioneering SBOM exploitation techniques for supply chain defense strategies.

Francesco Picasso is co-founder of Reality Net System Solutions, an Italian consulting company specialising in InfoSec and Digital Forensics.

As a senior researcher at the SANS Research Operations Center and former incident response lead at Shell, Mike’s work has redefined enterprise-scale incident response and directly advanced the global community’s ability to combat cyber adversaries.

Paul has spent over 22 years in Shell in various security roles including network operations, risk governance and compliance, audit, incident management, forensics, pen testing and project management. He holds a B.SC degree in Computer Science.