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San Antonio, TX - November 8 - 13, 2008
Global Information Assurance Certification

SANS is a great place to enhance your technical and hands on skills and tools. I thoroughly recommend it.
-Aaron Waugh, Datacom NZ Ltd.

Faculty for SANS San Antonio 2008

Tanya Baccam
Tanya is a SANS senior instructor as well as a SANS courseware author. She provides many security consulting services for clients, such as system audits, vulnerability and risk assessments, database audits, and Web application audits. Tanya has previously worked as the director of assurance services for a security services consulting firm and the manager of infrastructure security for a healthcare organization. She also served as a manager at Deloitte & Touche in the Security Services practice. Throughout her career she's consulted with many clients about their security architecture, including areas such as perimeter security, network infrastructure design, system audits, Web server security, and database security. She has played an integral role in developing multiple business applications and currently holds the CPA, GCFW, GCIH, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCNA, and Oracle DBA certifications.
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Eric Conrad
Certified SANS Instructor Eric Conrad's career began in 1991 as a Unix sysadmin for a small oceanographic communications company. He gained experience in a variety of industries, including research, education, power, Internet, and healthcare, and has worked with companies such as Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Boston University, The Open Group, Navipath, and Caritas Christi Health Care. He is now an independent information security consultant focusing on intrusion detection, incident handling, and penetration testing. In addition to the CISSP, he holds the prestigious GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification as well as the GIAC GPEN, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GAWN, GSEC certifications. He is a contributing author to SANS HIPAA Security Implementation.
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Jonathan Ham
Jonathan is an independent consultant who specializes in large-scale enterprise security issues, from policy and procedure, through staffing and training, to scalable prevention, detection, and response technology and techniques. With a keen understanding of ROI and TCO (and an emphasis on process over products), he has helped his clients achieve greater success for over 12 years, advising in both the public and private sectors, from small upstarts to the Fortune 500. He's been commissioned to teach NCIS investigators how to use Snort, performed packet analysis from a facility more than 2000 feet underground, and chartered and trained the CIRT for one of the largest U.S. civilian Federal agencies. He currently holds the CISSP, GSEC, GCIA, and GCIH certifications, and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. A former combat medic, Jonathan still spends some of his time practicing a different kind of emergency response, volunteering and teaching for both the National Ski Patrol and the American Red Cross.
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