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Dublin, Ireland - April 7 - 12, 2008
Global Information Assurance Certification

Very intense. I have never been to a conference where we received so much information and so much more to learn post-conference.
-Paul Abels, UPS

Faculty for SANS Dublin 2008 with O2

Dr. Eric Cole, Ph.D.
Dr. Eric Cole is an industry recognized security expert, with over 15 year's hands-on experience. Dr. Cole currently performs leading edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Dr. Cole has experience in information technology, with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Dr. Cole has a Masters in Computer Science from NYIT, and a Ph.D. 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 also the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker. Eric is also a senior scientist with Lockheed Martin Information Technology (LMIT) and Lockheed Martin (LM) fellow. Dr. Cole is actively involved with The SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware.
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Pieter Danhieux

Pieter Danhieux is security auditor at Ernst & Young's Technology and Security Risk Services department in Brussels since 2004. He is leading the technical security team for Ernst & Young in Brussels and is one of the key persons on a European level for IT security within EY. He and his team perform attack & penetration projects, configuration reviews of operating systems, network components and databases on a daily basis mainly for large financial institutions and telecommunication companies. He is also actively teaching an co-authoring parts of Ernst & Young's Extreme Hacking course and has written several papers regarding penetration testing, including "Penetration testing: the Third Party Hacker", and "What is Santy bringing you this year?" (an in-depth analysis of the Santy worm).

Next to his work, Pieter is involved in the Advisory Board of the SANS Institute, acts as an advisor to the Belgian ISSA Chapter Board and frequently speaks at security conferences in Belgium. He obtained the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification, the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), the GIAC Certified Forensics Analyst program (GCFA) and is currently one of the 11 people worldwide who have received the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) title.

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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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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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