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Amsterdam, Netherlands - November 6 - 11, 2006
Global Information Assurance Certification

Instructors have excellent hands on real life experience.
-Terry Kuxhaus, State of South Dakota

Faculty for SANS Amsterdam 2006

Tanya Baccam
Tanya is a SANS senior instructor, as well as a SANS courseware author. She provides many security consulting services for clients such as system audits, vulnerability and risk assessments, database assessments, web application assessments and penetration testing. Tanya has previously worked as the Director of Assurance Services for a security services consulting firm, as well as being the Manager of Infrastructure Security for a healthcare organization. She also served as a Manager at Deloitte & Touche in the Security Services practice. Throughout her career, she's consulted with many clients about their security architecture, including areas such as perimeter security, network infrastructure design, system audits, web server security, and database security. She has played an integral role in developing multiple business applications and currently holds the CPA, GCFW, GCIH, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCNA, CCSE, CCSA and Oracle DBA certifications.
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Jess Garcia

Jess Garcia, founder of One eSecurity, is a Senior Security Engineer with over 15 years of experience in Information Security.

During the last 5 years Jess has worked in highly sensitive projects in Europe, USA, Latin America and the Middle East with top global customers in sectors such as financial & insurance, corporate, media, health, communications, law firms or government, in areas such as Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Malware Analysis, Security Architecture Design and Review, etc.

Previously, Jess worked for 10 years as a systems, network and security engineer in the Spanish Space Agency, where he collaborated as a security advisor with the European Space Agency, NASA, and other international organizations.

Jess is a frequent speaker at security events, having been invited to dozens of them around the world during the last few years. Jess has also contributed to several books, articles, SANS courseware, the GIAC program, etc. Jess is an active security researcher in areas such as Incident Response and Computer Forensics or Honeynets.

Jess holds a Masters of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from the Univ. Politecnica de Madrid.

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David Hoelzer
Since 1985, David has had almost any position that you can imagine in the information technology field, ranging from programmer analyst up to chief information security officer. He has been teaching for SANS since 1999, managing and authoring the majority of the audit related materials for SANS in addition to some of the secure coding courses from SANS-SSI. David currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for Enclave Forensics and the Director of Consulting for Cyber-Defense, a subsidiary of Enclave Forensics. He is a research fellow with the Internet Forensics Lab and an adjunct research associate with the UNLV Center for Cybersecurity Research.
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David Perez
David Perez is an Independent Security Consultant based in Valencia, Spain. He performs Forensic Analysis, Incident Handling, Penetration Testing, and System and Network Security Auditing for a variety of major corporate clients in the European marketplace. His background prior to his current position includes 5+ years working at HP as a Security Consultant and three further years working as a Systems Administrator and Support Engineer. He has a Masters Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from UPV (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) and is a holder of the highest SANS GIAC certification - the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification.
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Maury Shenk
Maury Shenk is a partner in the London office of trans-Atlantic law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he heads the European technology group (and was managing partner of the office from 2002-2006). Maury handles a wide variety of technology matters for a wide variety of clients, from multinationals to start-ups. In the security area, he frequently advises on data protection issues; has extensive experience on matters involving law enforcement access to communications; and heads Steptoe & Johnson's world-leading encryption regulation practice, handling licensing matters in various countries and managing the Country-by-Country Guide to Encryption Regulations (www.cryptoguide.com). He writes and speaks frequently on technology matters, including encryption and liability risks from computer security breaches. Maury is a dual-qualified US / UK lawyer. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1988 and received a J.D. with honors in 1992 from Stanford Law School. He proficiently speaks French and Russian, and has a working knowledge of Spanish, Italian, German and Norwegian.
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Raul Siles
Raul Siles is a senior independent Security Consultant performing security solutions and services in various European industries. Raul's expertise includes security architectures design, penetration tests, incident handling, forensic analysis, network, system and application security assessments and hardening, intrusion detection and information security management. He has previously worked as a security consultant with Hewlett-Packard. Raul is one of the few individuals who have earned the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation and also holds other SANS/GIAC certifications. Raul is a SANS Institute author and instructor for multiple courses. He is a frequent security speaker, has authored a TCP/IP security book and contributes to security articles, reviews and research projects. As a member of the Spanish Honeynet Project, he loves security challenges. Raul holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from UPM (Spain) and a postgraduate in Security and E-Commerce.
More information at http://www.raulsiles.com.
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Arrigo Triulzi
Arrigo Triulzi, trained in Pure Mathematics, holds an MSc in Mathematical Computation from Queen Mary, University of London, and is working towards a PhD in Algebraic Computation. He is co-founder and Chief Security Officer of K2 Defender Limited, a bespoke high-end IDS solutions provider. Arrigo is also a free-lance consultant in IT Security with particular expertise in secure network design, network security analysis, and incident handling. He is also the administrator of the IDS Europe mailing list. Having worked with both popular and less common flavours of Unix he is comfortable working in any heterogeneous networking environment and his knowledge also includes esoteric operating systems such as Guardian/NSK. Arrigo is co-inventor in an EU patent for a high-performance distributed IDS design, and has written on a variety of security topics. Recent work includes web research into IDS deployment on IPv6, firewall verification using IDS, and distributed concept virii.
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