The event will take place at the Hilton Dubai Jumeirah in Dubai from October 17th to October 29th with three 6-day courses running in the first week and another three 6-day courses in the second week. Led by a team of world class instructors from the US and Europe, Sans Gulf Region provides the only opportunity to take these intensive, hands-on Sans cyber security courses in the Middle East.

Sans will be offering the newly updated course; SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking led by Adrien de Beaupre. The course helps students move beyond push-button penetration testing to professional web application penetration testing that finds flaws before the adversaries discover and abuse them. SEC542 enables students to capably assess a web application's security posture and convincingly demonstrate the impact of inadequate security that plagues most organisations. The full course roster also includes Security Essentials Bootcamp Style, Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling, Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, Mobile Device Security and Ethical Hacking and Defending Web Applications Security Essentials.

The Sans Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organisation. Sans is probably one of the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of cyber security training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions world-wide. Sans instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online. GIAC, an affiliate of the Sans Institute, validates employee qualifications via 27 hands-on, technical certifications in information security.