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Toronto, ON - May 10 - 16, 2008
Global Information Assurance Certification

Intense, fast paced. Modern day Sherlock Holmes!
-Cody Drake, Allstate Ins. Co.

Faculty for SANS Toronto 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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Nishchal Bhalla
Nishchal Bhalla, the Founder of Security Compass, is a specialist in product, code, web application, host and network reviews. Nish has coauthored and contributed to a number of books including "Buffer Overflow Attacks: Detect, Exploit & Prevent" and "Hacking Exposed: Web Applications, 2nd Edition". Nish is the Toronto Chapter chair of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). He has written articles and is often quoted by the media as an information security expert. Nish is a frequent speaker on emerging security issues at a variety of conferences, including Blackhat Europe in Amsterdam, Reverse Engineering Conference in Montreal, and HackInTheBox in Malaysia. He has extensive experience in creating and teaching classes in information security. Nish holds his Masters in Parallel Processing from Sheffield University, is a postgraduate in Finance from Strathclyde University, and a Bachelor in Commerce from Bangalore University.
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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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Bryce Galbraith

Bryce began his IT journey at 10 years of age with a Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem. 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 member of 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 currently teaches Security 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling, Security 560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, Security 517: Cutting-Edge Hacking Techniques, Security 550: Advanced Information Recon, Security 401: SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style, and Security 561: Network Penetration Testing: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Reports, Exploits, and Command Shells for the SANS Institute. Bryce is an active member of several security-related professional organizations, he speaks at a variety of conferences, and he holds a number of certifications: CISSP, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CHFI, Security+, and CCNA. Bryce is currently the lead consultant and co-founder of Layered Security.

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Rob Lee
Rob Lee is a director for MANDIANT (www.mandiant.com), a leading provider of information security consulting services and software to Fortune 500 organizations and the U.S. government. Rob is also the curriculum lead for digital forensic training at the SANS Institute (forensics.sans.org). Rob has more than 13 years' experience in computer forensics, vulnerability and exploit discovery, intrusion detection/prevention, and incident response. Rob graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and served in the U.S. Air Force as a founding member of the 609th Information Warfare Squadron, the first U.S. military operational unit focused on information operations. Later, he was a member of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted computer crime investigations, incident response, and computer forensics. Prior to joining MANDIANT, he directly worked with a variety of government agencies in the law enforcement, U.S. Department of Defense, and intelligence communities as the technical lead for a vulnerability discovery and exploit development team, lead for a cyber forensics branch, and lead for a computer forensic and security software development team. Rob also coauthored the bestselling book Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition. Rob earned his MBA from Georgetown University in Washington DC. Finally, Rob was awarded the Digital Forensic Examiner of the Year from the Forensic 4Cast 2009 Awards.
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Rohit Sethi
Rohit Sethi, Manager of Professional Services, Security Compass, is a specialist in threat modeling, application security reviews, and building security controls into the software development life cycle (SDLC). He has written articles on topics of application security for Security Focus and the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC). Prior to becoming a SANS instructor, Rohit taught courses on application security to hundreds of developers in fields ranging from financial services, to telecommunications, to healthcare. With a background in software engineering, Rohit emphasizes how to practically build application security controls into existing applications. Rohit holds an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with Software Engineering Specialization from the University of Western Ontario. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Sun certified Java programmer.
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Dave Shackleford

Dave Shackleford is the director of risk and compliance and acting director of security assessments at Sword and Shield Enterprise Security. He is also an instructor and course author for the SANS Institute, where he serves as a GIAC technical director. Previously, Dave worked as the chief security officer at Configuresoft and the chief technology officer for both the Center for Internet Security and a security consulting firm in Atlanta. He has managed information security for a major airline and has also worked as a security architect, analyst, and manager for several Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of regulatory compliance, security and network architecture, and engineering. Dave is the co-author of Hands-On Information Security from Course Technology as well as the "Managing Incident Response" chapter in the Course Technology book Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security. Recently, Dave co-authored the first published course on virtualization security for the SANS Institute. Dave currently serves on the board of directors at the Technology Association of Georgia's Information Security Society and the SANS Technology Institute.

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Stephen Sims
Stephen Sims is an information security consultant currently working for Wells Fargo in San Francisco, California. He has spent the past eight years in San Francisco working for several large financial institutions on network and systems security, penetration testing, exploitation development, risk assessment and management. Prior to San Francisco, Stephen worked in the Baltimore/DC area as a network security engineer for companies such as General Motors and Sylvan Prometric. He is one of only a handful of individuals who hold the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) Certification and also helps to author and maintain the current version of the exam. He is a SANS certified instructor and the course author of SANS’ first and only 700-level course, SEC709: Developing Exploits for Penetration Testers and Security Researchers. Stephen also holds the CISSP, CISA, and Network Offense Professional (NOP) certification, amongst others.
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Johannes Ullrich, PhD
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 PhD in Physics from SUNY Albany and is located in Jacksonville, Florida.
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