Tanya Baccam - Baccam Consulting

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 assessments, web application assessments and penetration testing. Tanya has previously worked as the Director of Assurance Services for a security services consulting firm, as well as being 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, CCSE, CCSA and Oracle DBA certifications.

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George Bakos - Northrop Grumman

George Bakos has been interested in computer security since the early 1980s when he discovered the joys of BBSs and corporate databases. These days he is Senior Engineer for Northrop Grumman's Cyber Threat Analysis & Intelligence team working to understand what's going on inside the minds and hearts of his adversaries. He was the developer of Tiny Honeypot and the IDABench intrusion analysis system, and was one of the researchers behind the Dartmouth Distributed Honeynet System. George developed and taught the U.S. Army National Guard's CERT technical curriculum and ran the NGB's Information Operations Training and Development Center research lab for two years, fielding and supporting Computer Emergency Response Teams nationwide. Outside the lab, George enjoys the beauties of his home state, Vermont, through skiing, ice and rock climbing, and mountain biking.

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Ryan Barnett - Breach Security

Ryan C. Barnett is the Director of Application Security Training at Breach Security. He is also a Faculty Member for the SANS Institute, where his duties include Instructor/Courseware Developer for Apache Security/Building a Web Application Firewall Workshop, Top 20 Vulnerabilities Team Member and Local Mentor for the SANS Track 4, "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling" course. He holds six SANS Global Information Assurance Certifications (GIAC): Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA), Forensic Analyst (GCFA), Incident Handler (GCIH), Unix Security Administrator (GCUX) and Security Essentials (GSEC). In addition to the SANS Institute, he is also the Team Lead for the Center for Internet Security Apache Benchmark Project and a Member of the Web Application Security Consortium. Mr. Barnett has also authored a web security book for Addison/Wesley Publishing entitled "Preventing Web Attacks with Apache."

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Chris Brenton - Consultant (Fellow)

Chris Brenton is a private consultant with over ten years of experience in the field. He is one of the founding members of the initial Honeynet Project and one of the original Internet Storm Center handlers, and he started up one of the first managed security ISP's. Over the years, he's been credited with the discovery of numerous vulnerabilities in various software products. Along with being a published author, Chris is responsible for maintaining all of the material in the SANS Perimeter Protection In-Depth course. In his spare time, Chris teaches rally and high speed off road security driving where he can be found teaching students to make their side window the front of the car.

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Guy Bruneau - IPSS Inc.

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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Eric Cole, PhD - SANS Technology Institute (Fellow)

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 Hackerole, 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. Eric is also a senior scientist with Lockheed Martin Information Technology (LMIT) and Lockheed Martin (LM) fellow. Cole is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware.

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Eric Conrad - Information Security Consultant

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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Ted Demopoulos - Demopoulos Associates

Ted Demopoulos' first significant exposure to computers was in 1977 when he had unlimited access to his high school's PDP-11 and hacked at it incessantly. He consequently almost flunked out but learned he liked playing with computers a lot. His business pursuits began in college and have been continuous ever since. His background includes over 20 years of experience in information security and business, including 15+ years as an independent consultant. Ted helped start a successful information security company, was the CTO at a "textbook failure" of a software startup, and has advised several other businesses. Ted is a frequent speaker at conferences and other events, quoted often by the press, and blogs on new media at BloggingForBusinessBook.com. In his spare time he writes books on Web 2.0, including Blogging for Business and What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting. He also has an ongoing software concern in Hong Kong, The Arial Group, an enterprise risk management solutions provider. Ted lives in New Hampshire with his wife, three children and dog.

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Jason Fossen - Enclave Consulting LLC (Fellow)

Jason Fossen is a principal security consultant at Enclave Consulting LLC, a published author, and a frequent public speaker on Microsoft security issues. He is the sole author of the SANS Institute's week-long Securing Windows course (SEC505), maintains the "Windows day" of Security Essentials (SEC401.5), and has been involved in numerous other SANS projects since 1998. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, received his Master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and holds a number of professional certifications. He currently lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Stephen Fried - Lucent Technologies

Stephen Fried is the Director of Global Information Security at Lucent Technologies, leading the team responsible for protecting Lucent's electronic and information infrastructure. Stephen began his professional career at AT&T in 1985 and has held a wide range of technical and management positions in such areas as software development, database design, call center routing, computing research, and information security for AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya. In more recent history, Stephen has developed the information security program for two Fortune 500 companies, dealing with topics like policy development, risk assessment, technology development & deployment and security outsourcing. Stephen is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and holds a B.S. in Telecommunications Management and a M.S. in Computer Science.

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Jeff Frisk - Director of GIAC

<p>Jeff holds the PMP and GSEC credentials and currently serves as the director of the GIAC program. He has worked on many projects for SANS and GIAC, including courseware, certification, and exam development. Jeff has an engineering degree from The Rochester Institute of Technology and more than 15 years of IT project management experience with computer systems, high-tech consumer products, and business development initiatives. Jeff has held various positions, including managing operations, product development, electronic systems / computer engineering. He has many years of international and high-tech business experience working with both big and small companies to develop computer hardware and software products and services.</p>

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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. 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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Jess Garcia - One eSecurity

Jess Garcia, founder of One eSecurity, is a Senior Security Engineer with over 15 years of experience in Information Security.

During the last 5 years Jess has worked in highly sensitive projects in Europe, USA, Latin America and the Middle East with top global customers in sectors such as financial & insurance, corporate, media, health, communications, law firms or government, in areas such as Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Malware Analysis, Security Architecture Design and Review, etc.

Previously, Jess worked for 10 years as a systems, network and security engineer in the Spanish Space Agency, where he collaborated as a security advisor with the European Space Agency, NASA, and other international organizations.

Jess is a frequent speaker at security events, having been invited to dozens of them around the world during the last few years. Jess has also contributed to several books, articles, SANS courseware, the GIAC program, etc. Jess is an active security researcher in areas such as Incident Response and Computer Forensics or Honeynets.

Jess holds a Masters of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from the Univ. Politecnica de Madrid.

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Jonathan Ham - jham corp.

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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Jim Herbeck - Nouvel Strategies

Jim is a managing partner and principal consultant at NOUVEL Strategies, an information risk and security management company based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has spent over 20 years working with information systems in commercial, government, academic, and research environments, both in the US and Europe. He received a computer science degree from the University of Iowa and has been an adjunct professor for the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico. Jim holds the CISSP and GCUX certifications.

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Bob Hillery - InGuardians

<p>Bob Hillery is a co-founder and Senior Security Analyst with InGuardians, LLC, of Washington, DC. He brings a global perspective to consultancy through Information Systems Security Management and computer network security incident handling experience in the U.S. Navy, private sector, and R&D. Bob has published a number of papers regarding threat assessment, business systems security management, including a National Institute of Justice project evaluating cyber attack and forensics tools requirements while a Senior Researcher for the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College.</p> <p>He is on the Advisory Boards of the SANS Institute, a variety of academic groups, and small businesses providing technical insights for Information Security degree programs and for corporate and legal digital forensics requirements. He also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs & Chair of Information Systems Department for NH Community Technical College. He is a certified instructor for the SANS Institute and guest lecturer at such places as the University of New Haven.s National Security Master.s Program and Franklin Pierce Law Center.</p> <p>Bob has Masters degrees in both Strategic Studies and International Relations. His professional certifications include CISSP, SANS GIAC certifications, MCSE and the NSA IAM & IEM.</p>

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David Hoelzer - Cyber-Defense (Fellow)

Since 1985, David has had almost any position that you can imagine in the information technology field, ranging from programmer analyst up to chief information security officer. He has been teaching for SANS since 1999, managing and authoring the majority of the audit related materials for SANS in addition to some of the secure coding courses from SANS-SSI. David currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for Enclave Forensics and the Director of Consulting for Cyber-Defense, a subsidiary of Enclave Forensics. He is a research fellow with the Internet Forensics Lab and an adjunct research associate with the UNLV Center for Cybersecurity Research.

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Mark Hofman - Shearwater Solutions

Mark Hofman is a director and founder of Shearwater Solutions and has over 15 years’ experience in ICT Security. He has worked for both private industry and government and has provided a wide range of information security consulting services to numerous organizations, including the financial sector, private sector, and government organizations. Mark has had a number of publications, has trained and lectured internationally, and is a handler for the Internet Storm Center. Mark holds professional certifications, including CISSP, GIAC GCFW, CompTIA Security+ and BSI lead auditor accreditations.

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Kevin Johnson - InGuardians

Kevin Johnson is a senior security analyst with InGuardians, LLC. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for Fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time he contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin founded and leads the development on the Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) project, the most popular Web interface for the Snort intrusion detection system. Kevin is an instructor for SANS, teaching both SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling and SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. He has presented to many organizations, including Infragard, ISACA, ISSA, and the University of Florida.

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Fred Kerby - SANS Institute

Fred is an engineer, manager, and security practitioner whose experience spans several generations of networking. He is the information assurance manager at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division and has vast experience with the political side of security incident handling. His team is one of the recipients of the SANS Security Technology Leadership Award as well as the Government Technology Leadership Award. Fred received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in recognition of his technical and management leadership in computer and network security. A frequent speaker at SANS, Fred’s presentations reflect his opinions and are not the opinions of the Department of the Navy.

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Rob Lee - Principal Consultant-MANDIANT (Fellow)

Rob Lee is a Principal Consultant for MANDIANT, a leading provider of information security consulting services and software to Fortune 500 organizations and the U.S. Government. Rob has over 11 years experience in computer forensics, vulnerability discovery, intrusion detection, and incident response. Rob graduated 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 and computer forensics. Prior to joining MANDIANT, he worked on contracts for a variety of government agencies, where he was the technical lead for a vulnerability discovery team, contractor lead for cyber forensics branch, and led a security software development team. Rob also coauthored the bestselling book, Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition. In addition to working for MANDIANT and the SANS Institute, Rob is currently pursuing his MBA at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

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Matthew Luallen - Sphere, LLC

*Matthew E. Luallen* is a well-respected information professional, researcher, instructor and author. Mr. Luallen serves as the President and Principal Consultant of Sph3r3, LLC., a strategic and practical educational and consulting company. With Sph3r3 Mr. Luallen consults with both governmental and commercial sectors including a multi-client base of corporations, public utilities, financial institutions, law enforcement and healthcare organizations. He has provided assistance and architectural support for many information security projects including integrating compliance requirements associated with SOX, HIPAA and the NERC CIP standard. Recent endeavors include architecting and integrating protective controls for financial market transactions, virtualized environments and SCADA systems. Prior to incorporating Sph3r3, Mr. Luallen provided strategic guidance for Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, within the Information Architecture and Cyber Security Program Office. In an effort to promote education and collaboration in information security Mr. Luallen is an instructor and faculty at several institutions. Mr. Luallen is adjunct faculty for DePaul University instructing the Computer Information and Network Security Masters degree capstone course. He is also a certified instructor and CCIE for Cisco Systems instructing security technologies such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, virtual private networks and general secure information architecture. As a certified instructor for the SANS Institute Mr. Luallen teaches infrastructure architecture, wireless security, web application security, regulatory and standards compliance, and security essentials. Mr. Luallen is a graduate of National Technological University with a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Mr. Luallen also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

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Randy Marchany - VA Tech

Randy is the Director of VA Tech's IT Security Laboratory and the University's Assistant IT Security Officer. He is a co-author of the original SANS Top 10 Internet Threats, the SANS Top 20 Internet Threats, the SANS Consensus Roadmap for Defeating DDoS Attacks, and the SANS Incident Response: Step-by-Step guides. He is a member of the Center for Internet Security development team that produced and tested the CIS Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux and Windows2000/XP security benchmarks and scoring tools. He was a member of the White House Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security working group that developed a Consensus Roadmap for responding to the DDOS attacks of 2000.

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Seth Misenar - Context Security

Seth Misenar is a certified SANS instructor and also serves as lead consultant and founder of Jackson, Mississippi-based Context Security, which provides information security though leadership, independent research, and security training. Seth's background includes network and Web application penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance efforts, security architecture design, and general security consulting. He has previously served as both physical and network security consultant for Fortune 100 companies as well as the HIPAA and information security officer for a state government agency. Prior to becoming a security geek, Seth received a BS in philosophy from Millsaps College, where he was twice selected for a Ford Teaching Fellowship. Also, Seth is no stranger to certifications and thus far has achieved credentials which include, but are not limited to, the following: CISSP, GPEN, GWAPT, GSEC, GCIA, GCIH, GCWN, GCFA, and MCSE. Beyond his security consulting practice, Seth is a regular instructor for SANS. He teaches numerous SANS classes, including SEC401: SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style, SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling, and SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. Seth also serves as both virtual mentor and technical director for SANS OnDemand, the online course delivery arm of the SANS Institute.

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Michael Murr - Code-X Technologies

Michael has been a forensic analyst with Code-X Technologies for over five years, has conducted numerous investigations and computer forensic examinations, and has performed specialized research and development. Michael has taught SANS Security 504 (Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling), SANS Security 508 (Computer Forensics, Investigation, and Response), and SANS Security 601 (Reverse-Engineering Malware); has led SANS@Home courses; and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. Currently, Michael is working on an open-source framework for developing digital forensics applications. Michael holds the GCIH, GCFA, and GREM certifications and has a degree in computer science from California State University at Channel Islands.

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Stephen Northcutt - SANS Institute (Fellow)

Stephen Northcutt founded the GIAC certification and currently serves as president of the SANS Technology Institute, a postgraduate level IT security college (www.sans.edu). Stephen is author/coauthor of Incident Handling Step-by-Step, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Inside Network Perimeter Security 2nd Edition, IT Ethics Handbook, SANS Security Essentials, SANS Security Leadership Essentials and Network Intrusion Detection 3rd edition. He was the original author of the Shadow Intrusion Detection system before accepting the position of chief for information warfare at the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Stephen is a graduate of Mary Washington College. Before entering the field of computer security, he worked as a Navy helicopter search and rescue crewman, white water raft guide, chef, martial arts instructor, cartographer, and network designer.

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Judy Novak - Research Engineer

Judy served as a principal research engineer on the Vulnerability Research Team for Sourcefire supporting Snort rules development, testing, research of IP and TCP reassembly, and competitive analysis. Judy has experience in security tool development, analysis of network traffic, and has worked on a computer incident and response team. Judy created the hands-on labs for the Intrusion Track, is the co-author of Network Intrusion Detection-An Analysts Handbook (3rd Edition) and a SANS Senior Instructor.

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Becky Pinkard - Consultant

Becky Pinkard has worked in the information technology industry for over 10 years. She is currently a senior security manager with a Fortune 20 company where she is lucky enough to work with security technology on a daily basis. She has written and edited course, test, and lab material for SANS. Becky is a SANS Certified Instructor and has taught for the SANS Institute since 2001. She has participated as a GIAC GCIA advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center for Internet Security (http://www.cisecurity.org/). She is a co-author of the Syngress book, Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS. Additionally, Becky has setup enterprise intrusion detection systems, designed patch, vulnerability and firewall strategies, performed security audits and assessments, worked forensics cases, and developed security awareness training in small and large environments. This background is rolled into her teaching style and helps give students that unique "SANS experience and advantage."

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Hal Pomeranz - Deer Run Associates (Fellow)

Hal is founder and CEO of Deer Run Associates, a systems management and security consulting firm. He has spent more than fifteen years managing systems and networks for some of the largest commercial, government, and academic organizations in the country. He is the Technical Editor for SysAdmin Magazine and was the recipient of the 2001 SAGE Outstanding Achievement award for his teaching and leadership in the field of System Administration. Hal participated in the first SANS conference and designed the SANS Step-by-Step course model. He is a top-rated instructor and author on topics ranging from information security to system and network management to Perl programming.

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Mike Poor - InGuardians

Mike is a founder and senior security analyst for the DC firm InGuardians LLC. In his recent past life he has worked for Sourcefire as a research engineer and for the SANS Institute leading their Intrusion Analysis Team. As a consultant, Mike conducts forensic analysis, penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, security audits, and architecture reviews. His primary job focus, however, is in intrusion detection, response, and mitigation. Mike currently holds both GSEC and GCIA certifications and is an expert in network engineering and systems, network and Web administration. Mike is an author of the international best selling Snort 2.1 book from Syngress and is a handler for the Internet Storm Center.

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Megan Restuccia - Morgan Stanley

Megan is currently a Certified Instructor and Mentor with the SANS Institute as well as a Solutions Engineer for Morgan Stanley. She has over 11 years experience in Information Technology with an extensive background in Networking, Unix/Linux and Windows environments, in both small and large implementations. Megan currently holds professional certifications including RHCE, CCWD, CISSP, GSEC and GIAC Certificates in GREM and GGSC. She also holds a BS in Computer Science and an MBA from Columbia University. Megan's most recent focuses were on SOX/HIPAA security regulations and training, intrusion detection and prevention, secure application coding and desktop encryption.

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David Rice - The Monterey Group

David Rice is an internationally recognized cyber security expert, consulting director for policy reform at the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, and author of the critically acclaimed book Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software. Mr. Rice is a key figure shaping the discussion of cyber security, and his work impacts both U.S. and European cyber security policy. As director of The Monterey Group, a private consulting firm, Mr. Rice advises a variety of clients on a range of issues, including cyber strategy development and execution, corporate cyber risk management, cyber security metrics, identity management, and secure software development practices.

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Dr. Ron Ritchey, Ph.D. - Booz Allen Hamilton

Mr. Ritchey is an authority in the areas of secure network design and network intrusion and regularly leads penetration testing efforts for Booz Allen Hamilton where he has had the opportunity to learn first-hand the real-world impact of network vulnerabilities. He is also an active researcher in the field with peer-reviewed publications in the area of automated network security analysis and is one of the co-authors of the recently released Inside Network Perimeter Security book published by New Riders in association with the SANS Institute. Mr. Ritchey has authored courses on computer security that have been taught across the country and periodically teaches masters level courses on computer security. Mr. Ritchey holds a masters degree in computer science from George Mason University and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Information Technology at their School of Information Technology and Engineering. His doctoral research involves automating network security analysis.

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Marcus Sachs - Verizon

Marcus Sachs serves as Executive Director of Government Affairs for National Security Policy at Verizon in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Verizon in August 2007, he was the deputy director of SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. Marcus has served as the director of the SANS Internet Storm Center since 2003, and is an internationally recognized computer security expert. He brings over 26 years of professional experience to SANS including 20 years of active military service as an officer in the United States Army and two years of national cyberspace security policy development as a Presidential appointee to the National Security Council staff in the George W. Bush administration. Marcus was the first cyber security official assigned to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 where he developed the initial concept and strategy for the creation of the United States Computer Emergency Response Team. He was also a founding member of the Defense Department's Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, created in 1998 as the first US military organization designed to fight foreign threats in cyberspace. A graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, Marcus also holds a Masters degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security, a Masters degree in Science and Technology Commercialization, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy with a concentration in Science and Technology. Marcus is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Richard Salgado - Senior Legal Director, Yahoo! Inc.

Richard P. Salgado is a Senior Legal Director with Yahoo! Inc., where he focuses on international privacy, security and law enforcement compliance matters. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Salgado served as Senior Counsel in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Salgado specialized in investigating and prosecuting computer network cases, such as computer hacking, illegal computer wiretaps, denial of service attacks, malicious code and other technology-driven privacy crimes. Mr. Salgado also regularly speaks on the legal and policy implications of searching and seizing computers and electronic evidence, emerging surveillance technologies, digital evidence and related criminal conduct. Mr. Salgado is a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a Computer Crime seminar; he previously served as an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and George Mason Law School, and as a faculty member of the National Judicial College. Mr. Salgado graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Mexico and in 1989 received his J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Eugene Schultz - Emagined Security

Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, one on Unix security, another on Internet security, a third on Windows NT/2000 security, a fourth on incident response, and the latest on intrusion detection and prevention. He has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a member of the editorial board for the SANS NewsBites, a weekly information security-related news update, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. Additionally, Gene has been elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases.

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Dave Shackleford - EMC

Dave Shackleford is EMC's chief security strategist, as well as the head of the Center for Policy and Compliance, a group focused on developing controls for industry and regulatory compliance initiatives. He is also an instructor and course author for the SANS Institute, where he serves as a GIAC technical director. Previously, Dave worked as chief technical officer for both the Center for Internet Security and a security consulting firm in Atlanta where he became one of the first Visa-certified Qualified Security Assessors while managing the firm's PCI compliance practice. 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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Glen Sharlun - ArcSight, Inc.

Glen started his career in the literal trenches as a leader of Marines and has since transitioned that ethos to the 'trenches' of enterprise network and security operations. Having experience building a policy, consulting and audit practice, leading the global monitoring, response and forensic team, establishing an active audit (Red Team) capability, Glen finished this career as Commanding Officer (CISO), Network Defense, U.S. Marine Corps. Glen is currently the Vice President of Customer Success at ArcSight, focused on delivering the best-practices in people, process and technologies of ArcSight's network management and security operations solutions, to its customers. Glen is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School (MS, Information Systems Management) and has attained & instructed numerous certifications from ISC2, SANS and the National Security Agency.

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James Shewmaker - Bluenotch

James has over 15 years' experience in IT. He is a SANS certified instructor and is one of the first certified GSE-Malware experts. He graduated with a BS in computer science from the University of Idaho. James is a founder and active consultant for Bluenotch Corporation, which focuses on investigations, penetration testing, and analysis. He develops applications and appliances for broadcast radio, Internet, and satellite devices. James also contributes to the FreeBSD project and is a port maintainer. He presents at various security and IT conferences, is a courseware contributor, and is actively involved in the COINS program.

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Raul Siles - Independent Security Consultant

Raul Siles is a senior independent Security Consultant performing security solutions and services in various European industries. Raul's expertise includes security architectures 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 Masters 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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Stephen Sims - Wells Fargo

Stephen Sims is an Information Security Consultant currently working for Wells Fargo in San Francisco, CA. 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 holds 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 Resaerchers.” Stephen also holds the CISSP, CISA and Network Offense Professional (NOP) certification, amongst others.

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Ed Skoudis - InGuardians (Fellow)

Ed Skoudis is a co-founder and Senior Security Analyst with InGuardians, 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 InGuardians, Ed served as a security consultant with International Network Services (INS), Predictive Systems, Global Integrity, SAIC, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).

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Dr. Steve Slater, Ph.D. - Security Compliance Corporation

Dr. Steve Slater is Founder and President of Security Compliance Corporation (www.securitycompliancecorp.com), a privately held software company building solutions for information security compliance and identity auditing. Steve is also a SANS author and instructor for Security 615: Secure Internet Presence – LAMP. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Slater has provided a range of expert consulting including secure firewall and application design, vulnerability assessments, threat management, security policy, and regulatory compliance. In addition to security, Steve also holds a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from UC Berkeley and has several publications relating to high-performance computing and advanced numerical analysis. His scientific expertise earned the recognition of both the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.

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Lance Spitzner - Honeynet Project

Mr. Lance Spitzner is founder and president of HoneyTech, an international security consultancy specializing in securing the human. Founded in 2003, HoneyTech has offices in both the United States and the United Arab Emirates. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of cyber threat research, training, and awareness. He invented and developed the concept of honeynets, is the author of the book <em>Honeypots: Tracking Hackers</em>, and is co-author of <em>Know Your Enemy: 2nd Edition</em>. He has published over thirty security whitepapers and articles, including several publications in the Know Your Enemy series. Mr. Spitzner worked for Sun Microsystems for four years as a senior security architect, helping secure Sun's customers around the world. He is founder of the Honeynet Project, an international, non-profit security research organization that captures, analyzes, and shares information on cyber threats at no cost to the public. He has spoken to numerous organizations, including the NSA, FIRST, the Pentagon, the FBI Academy, the President's Telecommunications Advisory Committee, MS-ISAC, the Navy War College, the British CESG, the Department of Justice, and Monetary Authority of Singapore. He has consulted around the world, working and presenting in over 20 countries on 6 different continents, including Germany, Brazil, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Japan, India, Philippines, Norway, Australia, Poland, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. His work has been documented in the media such as CNN, BBC, NPR, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Spitzner serves on the Distinguished Review Board for the Air Force Institute of Technology, Technical Review Board for CCIED, and Information Assurance Curriculum Advisory Board at DePaul University and was one of the original faculty members of the SANS Institute. Mr. Spitzner has an MBA from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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William Stearns - Dartmouth - ISTS

Bill is a Senior Research Engineer at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, working on Honeypot development and other network security projects. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute. His background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of a commercial firewall and is an active contributor to the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and maintaining an antispam blacklist. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org.

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John Strand - Black Hills Information Security

John Strand currently is the owner and senior security researcher with Black Hills Information Security, and a consultant with Argotek, Inc for TS/SCI programs. As a certified SANS instructor he teaches: 504 "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling," 517, "Cutting Edge Hacking Techniques," and 560 "Network Penetration Testing." He is a contributing author of Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring, and a regular contributor to SearchSecurity's "Ask the Expert" series on the latest information security threats. He also regularly posts videos demonstrating the latest computer attacks and defenses at vimeo.com/album/26207. He started the practice of computer security with Accenture Consulting in the areas of intrusion detection, incident response, and vulnerability assessment/penetration testing. John then moved on to Northrop Grumman specializing in DCID 6/3 PL3-PL5 (multi-level security solutions), security architectures, and program certification and accreditation. He has a master's degree from Denver University and is currently also a professor at Denver University. In his spare time he writes loud rock music and makes various futile attempts at fly-fishing.

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James Tarala - Enclave Hosting, LLC

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.

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Arrigo Triulzi - K2Defender Ltd.

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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Johannes Ullrich, Ph.D. - SANS Institute

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.

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Benjamin Wright - Attorney

Benjamin Wright is the author of several technology law books, including Business Law and Computer Security, published by the SANS Institute. With 24 years in private law practice, he has advised many organizations, large and small, on privacy, e-commerce, computer security and e-mail discovery 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. Wright maintains a popular popular blog at http://legal-beagle.typepad.com.

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Joshua Wright - InGuardians

Joshua Wright is a Senior Security Analyst with InGuardians, LLC and a Senior Instructor with the SANS Institute. A widely recognized expert in the wireless security field, Josh has worked with private and government organizations to evaluate the threat surrounding wireless technology. As an open-source enthusiast, Josh has developed a variety of tools that can be leveraged for penetration testing and security analysis. Prior to joining InGuardians, Josh was the Senior Security Researcher for Aruba Networks, leading a team committed to significantly improving the security of modern networks. In his spare time, Josh looks for any opportunity to void the warranty on wireless electronics.

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Lenny Zeltser - SAVVIS

Lenny Zeltser leads the security consulting practice at Savvis. He is also a board of directors member at SANS Technology Institute, a SANS faculty member, and an incident handler at the Internet Storm Center. Lenny frequently speaks on information security and related business topics at conferences and private events, writes articles, and has co-authored several books.

Lenny is one of the few individuals in the world who've earned the highly-regarded GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation. He also holds the CISSP certification. Lenny has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan and a computer science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For more information about his projects, see http://www.zeltser.com.

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