Jim has spent over 15 years in IT, primarily developing appliances for automation and security for broadcast radio, internet, and satellite devices. He is one of a only a few security professionals holding a GIAC Platinum certification: GSE-Malware. Jim previously wrote and audited questions for various GIAC exams and is on the Advisory Board. Jim is a founder and active consultant for Bluenotch which focuses on investigations, penetration testing, and analysis. He is a FreeBSD port maintainer and has contributed to the courseware in various SANS courses including Security Essentials and Reverse Engineering Malware: Advanced Techniques.
Ed Skoudis
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).
James Tarala
James Tarala is a principal consultant with Enclave Hosting, LLC and is based out of Venice, FL. He is a regular speaker and senior instructor with the SANS Institute, as well as a courseware author and editor for many of their auditing and security courses. As a consultant, he has spent the past few years architecting large enterprise IT security and infrastructure architectures, specifically working with many Microsoft based directory services, e-mail, terminal services, and wireless technologies. He has also spent a large amount of time consulting with organizations to assist them in their security management, operational practices, and regulatory compliance issues, and often times performs independent security audits and assists internal audit groups to develop their internal audit programs. James completed his undergraduate studies at Philadelphia Biblical University, his graduate work at the University of Maryland, and holds numerous professional certifications.
Dr. Johannes Ullrich, Ph.D.
As Chief Research Officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) and the GIAC Gold program. He founded DShield.org in 2000, which is now the data collection engine behind the ISC. His work with the ISC has been widely recognized, and in 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a web development company and as a research physicist. Johannes holds a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY Albany and is located in Jacksonville FL.
Dave Wichers
David Wichers is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aspect Security, a company that specializes in application security services. Mr. Wichers has over seventeen years of experience in the information security field, in areas such as application security, security architectures, secure designs, security policies, database security, multilevel security, system and software development, and security testing.
He has supported the design and development of enterprise web applications, trusted operating systems, trusted databases, multilevel secure guards, and large integrated systems for a wide variety of Commercial and Government customers. He previously ran the Application Security Services Group at Exodus Communications. Mr. Wichers has a BSE in Computer Systems Engineering from Arizona State University and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. Mr. Wichers is a CISSP and a CISM, is currently the OWASP Conferences Chair (www.owasp.org), and is a coauthor of the OWASP Top Ten.
Adam Winnington
Adam is a Security Consultant for Toronto based network security firm Access 2 Networks. He helps his clients implement secure solutions that the solve problems they have in their environments. He has worked with computer networking and security for the last 15 years in large and small environments helping clients manage their infrastructure and their problems.
Adam received his Masters of Science in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool; he is an instructor for Check Point, Iron Port, and Nokia. Adam has trained hundreds of individuals in the last 7 years and has developed courseware to replace or augment the documentation provided by vendors.
Joshua Wright
Joshua is the author of several papers on wireless security and intrusion analysis, and the co-author of Securing Cisco
Routers: Step-by-Step, a book published by the SANS Institute. In a consulting role, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, and educational institutions addressing issues related to wireless security, vulnerability assessment, and secure network design. He currently serves as the senior security researcher for Aruba Wireless Networks and is an instructor for the SANS Institute.
Benjamin Wright
Ben, recognized the world over as one of the leading lawyers in e-commerce, is the founding author of
The Law of Electronic Commerce, a comprehensive book on the legality of electronic transactions and computerized business records. Since 1988, Wright has delivered over 500 speeches on e-commerce, privacy, records management, and computer security and been quoted in publications around the globe, from the Wall Street Journal to the Sydney Morning Herald. He wrote and presented to the Sri Lankan government a report on technology law, which contributed to the adoption of national e-commerce legislation in 2005.
Lenny Zeltser
Lenny Zeltser leads the New York security consulting team at SAVVIS, a premier provider of IT infrastructure and hosting services. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at SANS Technology Institute, a senior faculty member at SANS, and an incident handler at the Internet Storm Center. Lenny co-authored a number of books, including
Inside Network Perimeter Security and
Malware: Fighting Malicious Code. He also contributed articles to publications such as the
Information Security magazine, and presented to IT executives at conferences and private summits. In addition to holding the CISSP certification, Lenny is one of the few individuals in the world who have earned the highly-regarded GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation. He has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan and a Computer Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. More information about Lenny's projects and interests is available at
http://www.zeltser.com.