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

It's very dynamic and I will be able to apply what I learned directly into my area of work.
-Wagner Nascimento, eBay, Inc.


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

Faculty for SANS WhatWorks in Log Management Summit 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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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 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
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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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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