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San Jose, CA - April 23 - 25, 2007
Global Information Assurance Certification

This is the best group of instructors I've ever been exposed to.
-Mark Jeanmougin, 53.com


Additional Course Offerings: Additional courses are available in San Jose on April 25th. Please visit the WhatWorks in Log Management Summit 2007 page for more information.

Faculty for SANS WhatWorks in Mobile Encryption Summit 2007

Chris Brenton
Chris Brenton is a private consultant with over ten years experience in the field. He is one of the founding members of the initial Honeynet Project, one of the original Internet Storm Center handlers, and 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 Security track. 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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Jason Fossen
Jason Fossen is a principal security consultant at Enclave Consulting LLC, a published author, and a frequent public speaker on Microsoft security issues. He is the sole author of the SANS Institute's week-long Securing Windows course (SEC505), maintains the "Windows day" of Security Essentials (SEC401.5), and has been involved in numerous other SANS projects since 1998. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, received his Master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and holds a number of professional certifications. He currently lives in Dallas, Texas.
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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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Randy Smith
Randy Franklin Smith, CISA, SSCP, Security MVP is an information security consultant and trainer who specializes in Windows and Active Directory security and compliance. Randy is an expert on the Windows Security Log having authored a book and over 2 dozen articles on the subject. Randy is the publisher of the free Security Log Encyclopedia and has provided design consultation to a number of security log software development firms.
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