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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - March 10 - 22, 2007
Global Information Assurance Certification

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

Faculty for SANS Dubai 2007

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.

Bob Hillery
Bob Hillery is a co-founder and Senior Security Analyst with InGuardians, LLC, of Washington, DC. He brings a global perspective to consultancy through Information Systems Security Management and computer network security incident handling experience in the U.S. Navy, private sector, and R&D. Bob has published a number of papers regarding threat assessment, business systems security management, including a National Institute of Justice project evaluating cyber attack and forensics tools requirements while a Senior Researcher for the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. He is on the Advisory Boards of the SANS Institute, a variety of academic groups, and small businesses providing technical insights for Information Security degree programs and for corporate and legal digital forensics requirements. He also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs & Chair of Information Systems Department for NH Community Technical College. He is a certified instructor for the SANS Institute and guest lecturer at such places as the University of New Haven.s National Security Master.s Program and Franklin Pierce Law Center. Bob has Masters degrees in both Strategic Studies and International Relations. His professional certifications include CISSP, SANS GIAC certifications, MCSE and the NSA IAM & IEM.
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.