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SANS Instructors

SANS Institute Instructors are rock stars of the cyber security field, with a broad base of expertise in government and industry working as red team leaders, CISOs, technical directors, and research fellows. Use the search bar below to search for an instructor by name, or use the filter to narrow the instructors down by focus area.

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Jon Gorenflo
Jon Gorenflo

Mr. Harry James Smith

Fellow

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Andy Smith
Andy Smith

Andy Smith

Certified Instructor Candidate

Andy is a Principal Security Architect for BP, where he secures emerging technologies and develops security strategies. His background is a mix of technical elements and business practicalities, which he considers essential to developing solutions.

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Anuj Soni
Anuj Soni

Anuj Soni

Senior Instructor

Anuj Soni, Principal Reverse Engineer at United Healthcare, has over 15 years of experience enhancing organizational security postures. His expertise has led to the identification, containment, and remediation of multiple threat actor groups.

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Lance Spitzner
Lance Spitzner

Lance Spitzner

Senior Instructor

Lance revolutionized cyber defense by founding the Honeynet Project. Over the past 25 years, he has helped 350+ organizations worldwide build resilient security cultures, transforming human risk management into a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity.

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Wouter  Stinkens
Wouter  Stinkens

Wouter Stinkens

Wouter is a senior security expert at NVISO with 15 years of experience in the IT industry, currently serving as the lead of the SOAR engineering team at the NVISO Security Operations Center (SOC).

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Peter Szczepankiewicz
Peter Szczepankiewicz

Peter Szczepankiewicz

Principal Instructor

Peter is a Senior Security Engineer with IBM, and previously worked with both defensive and offensive red teams. He works daily to bring actionable intelligence out of disparate security devices for customers, making systems interoperable.

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David Szili
David Szili

David Szili

Principal Instructor

David has 10+ years of professional experience in penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability assessment and management, security monitoring, security architecture design, incident response, digital forensics, and software development.

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James Tarala
James Tarala

James Tarala

Senior Instructor

James Tarala, managing partner at Cyverity, co-created the CIS Controls and Cybersecurity Standards Scorecard, transforming cybersecurity governance and empowering global organizations to operationalize risk into actionable defense strategies.

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Bryan Simmons
Bryan Simmons

Jon Test

Certified Instructor Candidate

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Will Thomas
Will Thomas

Will Thomas

Associate Instructor

Will has revolutionized cyber threat intelligence by co-founding Curated Intelligence and exposing ransomware operations like Black Basta. His expertise in infiltrating dark web communities has advanced how we dismantle cybercriminal networks.

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Sean Thomas
Sean Thomas

Sean Thomas

Certified Instructor Candidate

Sean has worked in higher education for 25 years, including as a Senior Information Security Analyst for the past decade with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where he was part of the team that created the university’s cybersecurity program.

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Eric  Thompson
Eric  Thompson

Eric Thompson

Eric Thompson is the Director of Cybersecurity Operations and Incident Response at AECOM and a SANS Associate Instructor for LDR512: Security Leadership Essentials for Managers.

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