(Bethesda, Maryland) June 9, 2010. The SANS Institute is proud to announce their Mentor of the Year award recipients. This year there were two award winners.

Zoher Anis and Christopher Crowley, both from Gaithersburg, MD, earned this coveted award.

The Mentor of the Year Award is given to SANS Mentors who excel in their leading SANS Mentor Training classes in their local communities. These Mentors are the shining stars of the Mentor Program and are on the path to become Certified SANS Instructors. Mr. Anis and Mr. Crowley personally trained approximately 50 local security professionals in the areas of IT security, network penetration testing, and ethical hacking. Their students have learned the tools and tricks to defend their organizations against the attacks that are launched each and every day against computer systems across the globe.