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London, United Kingdom - June 26 - July 1, 2006
Global Information Assurance Certification

This course will provide a wealth of information to advance my career in the IT field.
-Doreen Lawrence, Los Alamos National Lab

Faculty for SANS London 2006

George Bakos
George Bakos has been interested in computer security since the early 1980s when he discovered the joys of BBSs and corporate databases. These days he is a senior engineer for Northrop Grumman's Cyber Threat Analysis & Intelligence team working to understand what's going on inside the minds and hearts of his adversaries. He was the developer of Tiny Honeypot and the IDABench intrusion analysis system and was one of the researchers behind the Dartmouth Distributed Honeynet System. George developed and taught the U.S. Army National Guard's CERT technical curriculum and ran the NGB's Information Operations Training and Development Center research lab for two years, fielding and supporting Computer Emergency Response Teams nationwide. Outside the lab, George enjoys the beauties of his home state, Vermont, through skiing, ice and rock climbing, and mountain biking.
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Guy Bruneau
Guy is a Senior Security Consultant with IPSS Inc. in Ottawa, Ontario. He works within IPSS Inc. security practice assisting clients with their Security needs, implementation and engineering of Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) on large networks, integration of Enterprise Security Management (ESM) solutions, Network Security Auditing, and Incident Response and Reporting. Guy has a B.A. (IT) from University of Quebec, holds GIAC GSEC, GCIA, GCIH, GCUX, GCFA and ISSPCS certifications. He is a SANS certified instructor, a course author and Stay Sharp instructor. He authored the OS hardened Snort with Sguil IDS platform where the ISO is freely available at: http://www.whitehats.ca.
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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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Bruce Mayhew
Bruce Mayhew is a Senior Application Security Architect for Aspect Security. Aspect is a consulting company in the Baltimore-Washington DC area that focuses on application security services for both the commercial and government markets. Bruce has almost 20 years of software development experience and has focused the last 6 years on application security. At Aspect, he is frequently a project lead for application security assessments for both J2EE and .NET enterprise web applications. In addition, Bruce supports several commercially available static code analysis tool vendors by performing signature analysis and developing vulnerability and security rule definitions. Bruce has been an instructor for Aspect's Web Application Security Course for over 2 years. He was instrumental in bringing WebGoat to OWASP (www.owasp.org) and currently leads the WebGoat project at OWASP (www.owasp.org/software/webgoat.html). WebGoat is a training application used to teach web application security principals to individuals that are new to web application security and is a core component of Aspect's Web Application Security Course. Aspect Security donated WebGoat to OWASP and made it open source. Bruce received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from SUNY Potsdam.
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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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William Stearns
Bill is a Senior Research Engineer at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, working on Honeypot development and other network security projects. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute. His background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of a commercial firewall and is an active contributor to the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and maintaining an antispam blacklist. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org.
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