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Tysons Corner, VA - March 24 - 31, 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 Tysons Corner 2008

Dr. Eric Cole, Ph.D.
Dr. Eric Cole is an industry recognized security expert, with over 15 year's hands-on experience. Dr. Cole currently performs leading edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Dr. Cole has experience in information technology, with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Dr. Cole has a Masters in Computer Science from NYIT, and a Ph.D. from Pace University with a concentration in Information Security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books including Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible and Insider Threat. He is also 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. Dr. 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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Bryce Galbraith
Bryce began his IT journey at 10 years of age with a Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem – he never looked back. 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 Consultant on 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 teaches SANS Security 504, "Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling” and SANS Security 401, “Security Essentials Boot Camp” for SANS Institute. Bryce is an active member of several security-related professional organizations, he speaks at a variety of conferences and holds a number of certifications: CISSP, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CHFI, Security+. Bryce is currently Lead Consultant and co-founder of Layered Security, Inc.
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Randy Marchany
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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Dr. Ron Ritchey, Ph.D.
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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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).
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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.
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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.
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