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Katie Nickels

Lecturer

Director of Intelligence at Red Canary

Specialities

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

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About Katie

Katie is the Director of Intelligence at Red Canary and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. With over a decade of experience in cyber threat intelligence, network defense, and incident response, she has supported organizations including the U.S. Department of Defense, MITRE, Raytheon, and ManTech. She serves as an instructor for SANS FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence and is the former host of the SANS Threat Analysis Rundown (STAR) livestream series, which she helped shape into a trusted source of analyst-driven insight on the evolving cyber threat landscape.

Student Reviews

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    Katie explained all slides very well, and it is easy to follow her throughout the session. She replies to all our queries right away and also goes back to explain things in detail. Katie really knows the content well and is able to present and explain this to the students.”

    Petra BrncalovaLufthansa AG
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    Katie's support is more than expected, like the way she has prepared slides for the exercise questions to be more informative and to make the students understand the content more easily. She connects separately to work on the issues we are experiencing for the session, along with the moderator Connor. ”

    Sravan AnupojuDeloitte
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    The instructor, Katie Nickels, is definitely the best trainer I have had. I have learned a lot from her, and her training style is brilliant. She makes time for everyone, has exceptional knowledge and experience in this field, and was enthusiastic the whole way through.”

    Alison McLaffertyVirgin Money