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Prague, Czech Republic - February 18 - 23, 2008
Global Information Assurance Certification

I learned more here in six days than I could in a year in terms of breadth of knowledge.
-Stephen Yuhas, TESSCO Technologies

Faculty for SANS Prague 2008

Eric Cole, PhD
Dr. Eric Cole is an industry-recognized security expert with over 15 years of hands-on experience. Cole currently performs leading-edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Cole has experience in information technology with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Cole has a master's degree in computer science from NYIT and a PhD 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 the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker. He is also a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President and several executive advisory boards. Dr. Cole is also the CTO of the Americas for McAfee. Cole is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware. He is a SANS faculty fellow and course author.
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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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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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