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Tysons Corner, VA - April 14 - 22, 2009
Global Information Assurance Certification

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

Faculty for SANS Tysons Corner 2009

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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Eric Cole, PhD
Dr. 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 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. He is also a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President and several executive advisory boards. Dr. Cole is also the CTO of the Americas for McAfee. Cole is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and SANS working with students, teaching, and maintaining and developing courseware. He is a SANS faculty fellow and course author.
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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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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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Stephen Northcutt
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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Dave Shackleford

Dave Shackleford is the owner of Blue Heron Security, an information security consulting firm. 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 of 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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