SANS Institute

Dr. Eric Cole

SANS Technology Institute (Fellow)

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.

Bryce Galbraith

Lead Consultant, Layered Security

Bryce began his IT journey at 10 years of age with a Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem — he never looked back. As a contributing author of the internationally bestselling book, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Bryce helped bring the secret world of hacking out of the darkness and into the public eye. Bryce has held security positions at global ISPs and Fortune 500 companies as well as being a Senior Consultant on Foundstone's world renowned attack and penetration team. Bryce also served as Senior Instructor and co-author of Foundstone's, 'Ultimate Hacking: Hands-On' series. He has taught the art of ethical hacking and countermeasures to thousands of IT professionals from a "who's who" of top companies, financial institutions, and government agencies around the globe. Bryce teaches SANS Security 504, "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling' and SANS Security 401, 'Security Essentials Boot Camp' for SANS Institute. Bryce is an active member of several security-related professional organizations, he speaks at a variety of conferences and holds a number of certifications: CISSP, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CHFI, Security+. Bryce is currently Lead Consultant and co-founder of Layered Security, Inc.

Terry Gudaitis

Cyveillance

Terry is currently the CyberIntelligence Director at Cyveillance. Before joining the team at Cyveillance, she was the Director of Open Source Intelligence at SAIC, and prior to SAIC she was the Chief of Business Development and Chief Behavioral Scientist at Psynapse Technologies, LLC. Terry has also held positions as a team member and lead investigator of incident response teams for SAIC, Global Integrity Corporation, Predictive Systems Inc., and Network Security Corporation. Terry became the only cyber-crime profiler in the commercial information security industry who provided a business differentiator for her incident response teams as well as for the field of cyber-intelligence. She expanded and altered the classical profiling methods used in homicide, serial crime, and terrorist investigation and adapted them for the applied use in computer crime investigations and internet-based cases.

Terry gained a foundation for her expertise as an operations officer and behavioral profiler at the CIA's Counter Terrorist Center. At CIA, she was responsible for developing terrorist profiles, assessments of informants, and managing targeting teams. In addition to her corporate related work, Terry has served on the United States Secret Service Advisory Board for Insider Threat, regularly presents at national and international conferences, and has authored publications in numerous security-related journals and books.

Johnny Long

Johnny Long is a Christian by grace, a professional hacker by trade, a pirate by blood, a ninja in training, a security researcher and author. He can be found lurking at his website. He is the founder of Hackers For Charity, an organization that provides hackers with job experience while leveraging their skills for charities that need them.

H.D. Moore

BreakingPoint Systems

HD Moore is the director of security research at BreakingPoint Systems, where he focuses on the content and security testing features of the BreakingPoint product line. Prior to BreakingPoint, HD spent seven years providing vulnerability assessments, leading penetration tests, and developing exploit code. HD is the founder of the Metasploit Project and one of the core developers of the Metasploit Framework, the leading open-source exploit development platform. In his spare time, HD searches for new vulnerabilities, develops security tools, and contributes to open-source security projects.

Gera Richarte

Core Security Technology

Gerardo Richarte, chief exploit officer at Core Security Technologies, drives the exploit development group for CORE IMPACT, the company's automated penetration testing product. Prior to his current role, he held senior positions on Core Security's consulting and engineering teams. He is a co-author of "The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes" and has written several information security papers, advisories and open source tools. Richarte is a popular speaker at industry events, including BlackHat, CanSecWest and PacSec, and has taught multiple assembly language and exploit writing classes to students in the public and private sectors.

Ed Skoudis

Intelguardians (Fellow)

Ed Skoudis is a co-founder and Senior Security Analyst with Intelguardians, a Washington DC based information security consulting firm. Ed teaches SANS Security 504, "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling," and 517, "Cutting Edge Hacking Techniques," on a regular basis. Ed's expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues. He has performed numerous security assessments, provided detailed expert witness services in cases involving major credit card theft, and responded to computer attacks for clients in the financial, high technology, healthcare, and other industries. Ed conducted a demonstration of hacker techniques against financial institutions for the United States Senate and is a frequent speaker on issues associated with hacker tools and defenses. He has published several articles on these topics, as well as the books Counter Hack Reloaded and Malware: Fighting Malicious Code. Ed was also awarded 2004, 2005, and 2006 Microsoft MVP awards for Windows Server Security, and is an alumnus of the Honeynet Project. Previous to Intelguardians, Ed served as a security consultant with International Network Services (INS), Predictive Systems, Global Integrity, SAIC, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).

Valsmith

Offensive Computing

Valsmith has been involved in the computer security community and industry for over ten years. He currently works as a professional security researcher on problems for both the government and private sectors. He specializes in penetration testing (over 40,000 machines assessed), reverse engineering and malware research. He works on the Metasploit Project development team as well as other vulnerability development efforts. Most recently Valsmith founded Offensive Computing, a public, open source malware research project.