Topics available for training include cyber and network defenses, penetration testing, incident response, digital forensics, and auditing.

[6] The SANS Institute sponsors the Internet Storm Center, an internet monitoring system staffed by a community of security practitioners, and the SANS Reading Room, a research archive of information security policy and research documents.

[9] It has developed and operates NetWars, a suite of interactive learning tools for simulating scenarios such as cyberattacks.

On November 21, 2013, SANS Technology Institute was granted regional accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

[16] SANS Technology Institute focuses exclusively on cybersecurity, offering a Master of Science degree program in Information Security Engineering (MSISE), five post-baccalaureate certificate programs (Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking, Incident Response, Industrial Control Systems, Cyber Defense Operations, and Cybersecurity Engineering (Core), and an upper-division undergraduate certificate program (Applied Cybersecurity).

[20] SANS acknowledges the contributions made by exceptional information security professionals, through its annual awards programs.