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Tysons Corner, VA - March 12 - 18, 2007
Global Information Assurance Certification

The perfect balance of theory and hands on experience.
-James d. Perry II, University of Tennessee

Faculty for SANS Tysons Corner 2007

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 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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Eric Cole, PhD
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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Michael Murr
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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John Myers
John Myers has thirty-plus years of Cryptography, Communications Security (COMSEC), Emission Security (TEMPEST), Computer Security (COMPUSEC), electronic data processing (EDP) security, information security (INFOSEC), and enterprise information assurance (IA) experience.  Experience ranges from technician level to senior technical and managerial positions. Expertise focused on all areas of security certification and accreditation (C&A). Performed C&As on applications, stand-alone systems, local area networks, wide area networks and legacy systems.  Over five years of classroom instruction, instructional systems design, and course development.
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Richard Salgado
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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Ed Skoudis
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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Rick Smith
Rick Smith is a Senior System Security Engineer working in SAIC's Common Criteria and Cryptographic Module Testing Laboratories.  He also provides information security consulting services to Department of Defense and civilian government agencies. Rick holds the GIAC Security Expert certification and several other GIAC certifications including GSNA and GCFA.  His other IT certifications include CISSP, ISSEP, CISA and, MCSE+I. Rick has been active within the SANS community, he serves as: a member of the GIAC Advisory Board and as an instructor in the Community SANS and SANS Stay Sharp Programs. Rick is currently pursuing a Masters of Information Security Engineering degree from The SANS Technology Institute (STI).
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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.
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