SANS Security Awareness & Culture Summit 2026August 28, 2026
You ARE the IT department. You're also the security team, the awareness program, and the culture change initiative. A ground-level account of running a 12-week voluntary champion program with quest-based learning and fantasy-themed red team trials β the wins, the wipes, and what I'd roll differently on a second playthrough.
π 2:30 PM β 2:55 PM PDTπ Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV & Virtual
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SANS Neurodiversity SummitDecember 12, 2025
A unique presentation that reframes neurodivergent traits as strengths in cybersecurity through D&D metaphors, offering permission to have a non-linear path and showing how every 'weakness' can be a superpower in the right context.
π Virtual
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CloudSecNext Summit 2025October 3, 2025
What happens when the insider threat shares your Wi-Fi password? In this entertaining yet educational talk, Jared and Liz Gore demonstrate how to use DuckDB to detect sophisticated cloud security threats across AWS, Azure, and GCP through a playful CTF-style demonstration.
π Denver, CO
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