Ed Skoudis

Ed Skoudis is the President of the SANS Technology Institute, the premier college offering career-focused undergraduate, certificate, and graduate programs at the cutting edge of cybersecurity. Skoudis is also a SANS Institute Fellow and Director of Cyber ranges. The innovative ranges he and his team create have enabled more than 40,000 cybersecurity professionals to learn advanced techniques in pen-testing, incident response, cyber defense, DFIR, and more. Skoudis and his team are the experts brought in to provide after-attack analysis on most major breach cases. Skoudis also leads development of NetWars, the low-cost, widely used cyber training and simulation ranges relied upon by military and corporate enterprises to prepare for critical threats. Additionally Skoudis leads the team that creates the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge with KringleCon, hosting over 19,000 people annually in this free community event.