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Samuel Linares

Samuel Linares is IT Manager and Information Security Knowledge Office Manager with Grupo Intermark and Manager of M45 Seucurity Team at ICT Cluster of Asturias with +14 years of security, system integration and project management experience. He leads and has created all the security services offered by Grupo Intermark, and before, by Tecnocom, the 3rd IT company in Spain, implementing a lot of security solutions in customers, including compliance audits, penetration tests, ethical hacking, firewalls and IPSs deployments or security network designs. He holds various certifications including CGEIT (Certified in Governance of Enterprise IT), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CISA (Certified Information Security Auditor), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks (GAWN), Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA), and Google Hacking & Defense (SSP-GHD), BSI BS 25999 & BS 7799 Lead Auditor, NetAsq CNE & CNA, Juniper JNCIA-FW, Checkpoint CCSE & CCSA, Sun SCNA & SCSA, among others. Samuel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Univ. de Oviedo and is University Specialist in Data Protection by the Colegio Universitario Escorial Maria Cristina. (You can obtain more information about Samuel in his personal web page: InfoSecMan)

Ignacio Paredes

Ignacio Paredes has a M.S. in Computer Science and works as information security consultant for Grupo Intermark. Since 1999 he has been involved in different projects related to information security for important enterprises mainly from the telecommunications field. He is an expert in the design and deployment of technical and administrative security solutions, incluiding topics such as applications security, secure network design or business continuity planning. Among others he has the following certifications: CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CISA (Certified Information Security Auditor), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA), GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks (GAWN), BS 7799 Lead Auditor por BSI (British Standards Institution), EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker, NetAsq CNE & CNA, Sun SCNA and Sun SCSA