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Virginia Beach, VA - August 26 - September 1, 2006
Global Information Assurance Certification

The level of expertise is unprecedented. People like Ed are hard to find!
-Steve O'Brien, City of Bend

Faculty for SANS Virginia Beach 2006

Jason Fossen
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 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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Don Murdoch
Don has 18 years of IT/IS experience, ranging from system administration, network management, and application development to database administration and information security/incident response. He currently works as the lead security engineer for a Fortune 1000 healthcare corporation. Don is the former information systems security officer for Old Dominion University where he spent most of his days in the Wild, Wild West of academic computing, putting SANS education to the test. Don participates with SANS/GIAC as a local mentor and instructor, was a former GCIH grader, and served as the GCUX Board Chair. Don's credentials include a BS in Computer Science, an MBA, and GCFA, GCNA, GCFW, GSEC, GCWN, GCUX, GCIA, GCIH, MCSD, and MCSE NT/2000 certifications.
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Mike Poor
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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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 founder and senior security consultant with InGuardians. Ed's expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues, with over fifteen years of experience in information security. Ed authored and regularly teaches the SANS courses on network penetration testing (Security 560) and incident response (Security 504), helping over three thousand information security professionals each year improve their skills and abilities to defend their networks. He has performed numerous security assessments; conducted exhaustive anti-virus, anti-spyware, Virtual Machine, and IPS research; and responded to computer attacks for clients in 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 numerous articles on these topics as well as the Prentice Hall best sellers Counter Hack Reloaded and Malware: Fighting Malicious Code. Ed was also awarded 2004-2009 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), Global Integrity, Predictive Systems, SAIC, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).

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Miles Stevenson
Miles Stevenson has spent the last six years working as a Linux network administrator. He worked in both commercial and government sectors specializing in low-cost Linux security solutions. He currently works as a full time network and security administrator for the SANS Institute.
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James Tarala
James Tarala is a principal consultant with Enclave Security and is based out of Venice, Florida. He is a regular speaker and senior instructor with the SANS Institute as well as a courseware author and editor for many SANS 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 he 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 and his graduate work at the University of Maryland. He holds numerous professional certifications.
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