Author's Statement SANS Instructors

SANS Computer Forensic Instructors are real-world practitioners who specialize in the subjects they teach. All instructors undergo rigorous training and testing before earning SANS Certified Instructor status. This helps us guarantee that what you learn in class will be up-to-date and relevant to your job.





“The instructor was very helpful in making sure that the class has a good understanding of the information covered to date”, - Debbie Moeker, 3M.

ROB LEE

• 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.

EOGHAN CASEY

• Eoghan Casey is founding partner of cmdLabs.com, author of the foundational book Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, and coauthor of Malware Forensics. For over a decade, he has dedicated himself to advancing the practice of incident handling and digital forensics. He helps client organizations handle security breaches and analyzes digital evidence in a wide range of investigations, including network intrusions with international scope. He has testified in civil and criminal cases, and has submitted expert reports and prepared trial exhibits for computer forensic and cyber-crime cases.

  Eoghan has performed thousands of forensic acquisitions and examinations, including Windows and UNIX systems, Enterprise servers, smart phones, cell phones, network logs, backup tapes, and database systems. He has performed vulnerability assessments, deployed and maintained intrusion detection systems, firewalls and public key infrastructures, and developed policies, procedures, and educational programs for a variety of organizations. In addition, he conducts research and teaches graduate students at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, is editor of the Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation, and is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's International Journal of Digital Investigation.

JESS GARCIA

• 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.

JONATHAN HAM

• 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.

SCOTT MOULTON

• Scott Moulton is president of Forensic Strategy Services, LLC and the lead recovery expert for a data recovery company called My Hard Drive Died.com. Mr. Moulton began his forensic career with a specialty in rebuilding and repairing hard drives for legal cases. Many times while working on a case, Mr. Moulton will be given hard drives that had already failed in an effort to blame the opposition or to impede performance and increase the cost to the opposition.

  Scott Moulton has successfully rebuilt and performed recoveries for many investigations and has given depositions and testified in many complex cases involving homicide, embezzlement, theft, divorce, child pornography and corporate fraud, among others. Mr. Moulton has also been involved in a precedence setting case about port scanning. In addition Mr. Moulton currently holds a private investigator license in the state of Georgia.

MICHAEL MURR

• Michael has been a forensic analyst with Code-X Technologies for over 5 years, and has conducted numerous investigations and computer forensic examinations, as well as performing specialized research and development. Michael has taught SANS Security 504 (Incident Handling and Computer Hacker Techniques), SANS Security 508 (System Forensics, Investigation, and Response), 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.

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.

CHAD TILBURY

• Chad Tilbury has spent over ten years responding to computer intrusions and conducting forensic investigations. His extensive law enforcement and international experience stems from working with a broad cross-section of Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies around the world. During his service as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, he investigated and conducted computer forensics for a variety of crimes, including hacking, abduction, espionage, identity theft, and multi-million dollar fraud cases. He has led international forensic teams and was selected to provide computer forensic support to the United Nations Weapons Inspection Team. Chad has worked as a computer security engineer and forensic lead for a major defense contractor and more recently as the Vice President of Worldwide Internet Enforcement for the Motion Picture Association of America. In that role, he managed Internet anti-piracy operations for the seven major Hollywood studios in over sixty countries. Chad is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science as well as GCFA, GCIH, and CISSP certifications. He is currently a consultant specializing in incident response, E-Discovery, and computer forensics.