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Brussels, Belgium - June 25 - 30, 2007
Global Information Assurance Certification

SANS Training should be attended by all IT staff as they have a wealth of knowledge to give.
-Leigh Lopez, CSVN

Faculty for SANS Secure Europe 2007

Chris Brenton
Chris Brenton is a private consultant with over ten years of experience in the field. He is one of the founding members of the initial Honeynet Project and one of the original Internet Storm Center handlers, and he started up one of the first managed security ISP's. Over the years, he's been credited with the discovery of numerous vulnerabilities in various software products. Along with being a published author, Chris is responsible for maintaining all of the material in the SANS Perimeter Protection In-Depth course. In his spare time, Chris teaches rally and high speed off road security driving where he can be found teaching students to make their side window the front of the car.
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Eric Cole, PhD
Dr. Eric Cole is an industry-recognized security expert with over 15 years of hands-on experience. Cole currently performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Cole has experience in information technology with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Cole has a master's degree in computer science from NYIT and a PhD from Pace University with a concentration in information security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books, including Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible, and Insider Threat. He is the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker. He is also a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President and several executive advisory boards. Dr. Cole is also the CTO of the Americas for McAfee. Cole is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware. He is a SANS faculty fellow and course author.
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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 five years Jess has worked on highly sensitive projects in Europe, the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East with top global customers in the financial, insurance, corporate, media, health, communications, legal, and government sectors. His work has included incident response, computer forensics, malware analysis, security architecture design and review, and more. 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 and honeynets. Jess holds a Masters of Science in telecommunications engineering from the Univ. Politecnica de Madrid.

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David Hoelzer
With more than twenty years of experience, David has served in positions ranging from the highly technical to senior management for a variety of organizations. For the last ten years, David has been the director of research for Cyber-Defense and the principal examiner for Enclave Forensics. In addition to day-to-day responsibilities, he has acted as an expert witness for the Federal Trade Commission and continues to teach at major SANS events, teaching security professionals from organizations including NSA, USDA Forest Service, Fortune 500 security engineers and managers, DHHS, various DoD sites, national laboratories, and many colleges and universities. From time to time David also speaks nationally and internationally on various security topics.
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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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Raul Siles

Raul Siles is a senior independent security consultant performing security solutions and services in various European industries. Raul's expertise includes security architecture 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 master's 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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James Tarala
James Tarala is a principal consultant with Enclave Security and is based out of Venice, Florida. He is a regular speaker and senior instructor with the SANS Institute as well as a courseware author and editor for many SANS auditing and security courses. As a consultant, he has spent the past few years architecting large enterprise IT security and infrastructure architectures, specifically working with many Microsoft-based directory services, e-mail, terminal services, and wireless technologies. He has also spent a large amount of time consulting with organizations to assist them in their security management, operational practices, and regulatory compliance issues, and he often times performs independent security audits and assists internal audit groups to develop their internal audit programs. James completed his undergraduate studies at Philadelphia Biblical University and his graduate work at the University of Maryland. He holds numerous professional certifications.
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