SANS Institute

The SANS Institute is a cooperative research and education organization that is focused on providing education related to information security. It is a provider of information security training and security certification in the world.
It also develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost, the largest collection of research documents about various aspects of information security, and it operates the internet's early warning system 'the Internet Storm Center'.
The institute is known for providing computer security training, certification, and information security research.
Its training segment provides intensive training designed to assist clients to practice the practical steps necessary for defending systems and networks against the most dangerous threats and the ones being actively exploited. Training can be taken in a classroom setting from SANS-certified instructors, self-paced over the Internet, or in mentored settings in cities around the world. Each year, SANS programs educate more than 12,000 people in the United States and internationally. SANS also offers a work study program. Its programs now reach more than 165,000 security professionals around the world.
Its online resources include the Internet Storm Center, weekly news digest, weekly vulnerability digest, and more than 1,200 award-winning and original information security research papers.
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 and is based in Singapore.