Christopher Crowley

Associate Professor

Independent Consultant at Montance, LLC

Specialities

Cyber Defense, Offensive Operations

Chris Crowley has spent his career transforming how defenders detect and respond to advanced threats—most recently harnessing data science and artificial intelligence to make security operations smarter and more adaptive. As a Senior Instructor at the SANS Institute, he teaches SEC511: Cybersecurity Engineering – Advanced Threat Detection and Monitoring, SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling, and SEC595: Applied Data Science and AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Professionals. His mission: to equip defenders with the technical depth and analytical mindset to thrive in a world where AI reshapes both attacks and defense.

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Each day's content was better and better, presented in the unbeatable combination of Chris Crowley's lecture followed by incredible labs. I'm simply amazed at Chris's vast knowledge and experience. He is truly a consummate professional who is unquestionably dedicated to his students.”
Paul OvalleMicroSys
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Chris Crowley is an outstanding teacher and presenter! I learned so much from him in SEC504, it's unbelievable.”
Danny JaniczekExtraHop
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Chris is awesome! He's excellent at answering questions and giving real-world examples. I'm very grateful to have been able to take this class and will highly recommend to peers of mine that they take SANS classes taught by Chris, as I know they'd learn a ton from him as well! Thank you, SANS, for another excellent course!”
Luke BercawUnited Parcel Service (UPS)