The SANS European CTF Championship has its top three winners in the "Veteran Player's" Group
SetecAstronomy — 1st place
discorpion — 2nd place
kadir58 — 3rd place
1,000 players, 300 finalists.
Congratulations to all who took part!
The SANS European CTF Championship has its top three winners in the "New Player's" Group
JustK0000 — 1st place
dceed — 2nd place
Bin0 — 3rd place
1,000 players, 300 finalists.
Congratulations to all who took part!
AI is reshaping cyber attacks.
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SANS Doha | June 20–25, 2026
Doha & Live Online (AST)
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Is every level of your organization ready for a breach — from the SOC to the C-suite teams? Practice #CyberCrisis response with SANS and build alignment across technical and executive teams to prevail at every level.
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The EU CTF Championship Final is closed! 1,000 players, 300 finalists, 72 thrilling hours.
One important change: We are splitting the players into 2 groups: Veterans & New players.
Same Top 3 prizes for both groups. Winners will be announced soon
"You will be able to apply your training the day you get back to the office." Jason Nickola on building security teams that keep pace with real-world threats.
Read his story: go.sans.org/HSVkii
Explore upcoming events: go.sans.org/FvCr4Y
Most CISOs have a crisis plan. The Cyber Crisis Exercise at Cyber Leaders Summit London tests how you actually lead when it's live.
Cyber Leaders Summit London | 24 September, Mayfair.
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Attackers don't need specialised models if everyday AI gets there first.
Chris Cochran on what defenders need to be thinking about before that happens. Tune in this Friday.
Catch up on previous episodes now: go.sans.org/yjaSte
Social engineering's oldest triggers - urgency, authority, and familiarity are now running at AI scale.
Nick Mitropoulos examines both the mechanics and the psychology. 15 June, 3 PM AST.
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Blocking AI doesn't make it go away. It makes it invisible. You can't govern what you can't see. Our newest eBook shows the way out. 👇
Stop blocking. Start governing. The SANS AI Security Maturity Model™ eBook shows you how:
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24 hours until Stage 2 of the SANS European CTF Championship.
Watch out for a ranges.io email 48 hours before the competition starts on 10th June, 9 am CEST.
If you haven’t got this email yet, please email eu-ctf@sans.org today.
See you at 9 am CEST tomorrow!
SANS Institute has signed an MoU with the Operative-Technical Agency of Georgia, formalising a training partnership across incident response, penetration testing, forensics, and malware analysis.
Read the full announcement: bit.ly/4obRzkS
"Recovery alone is no longer enough." SANS Institute's Chris Cochran on why Gulf businesses need to plan for ransomware that takes operations offline for weeks.
Read more: bit.ly/4x8yzHV
Voice cloning. Deepfake video calls. AI that adapts mid-conversation. Nick Mitropoulos breaks it down on June 15 at 3 PM AST.
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How organizations build cyber talent is changing. On June 24, leaders from SANS and Microsoft will walk through finding from the 2026 Cybersecurity Workforce Research Report by SANS | GIAC live.
Register: go.sans.org/Hj7gGx#WorkforceDevelopment#CyberWorkforce
Stolen tokens and abused OAuth consent don’t trigger standard alerts. That is the problem SEC559 is built to solve.
Detection and response across the full identity lifecycle. Real telemetry, real techniques.
Beta. Amsterdam. Aug 24–28.
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Day 2 at @Infosecurity Europe: SANS Institute is still at stand F130 if yesterday's crowds put you off stopping by.
Workshops continue today. If you're at the show and want to talk through anything, come find the team.
Check the schedule: bit.ly/4cWGwH1
Day 1 at #InfosecurityEurope. LLM Mayhem and CISO Challenge workshops are running today, and Ciaran Martin's AI Masterclass is at 2:30 pm for Leaders Group attendees.
We're at stand F130.
Workshop schedule: bit.ly/4cWGwH1
Most organizations discover gaps in their AI security program when something goes wrong, not during a structured assessment. The SANS AI Security Maturity Model™ eBook gives you the scoring methodology to get ahead of that. 👇
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Two weeks to go until the SANS OSINT Summit Amsterdam, 15–16 June.
Hands-on workshops, practitioner talks, up to 8 CPE credits.
15–16 June | Amsterdam, Capital C
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