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Samuel Linares

Samuel Linares is IT Manager & Information Security Knowledge Office Manager with Grupo Intermark. With +13 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, one of the top 3 IT companies 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 CISSP, GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA), GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks (GAWN), Google Hacking & Defense (SSP-GHD), BSI (British Standards Institution) BS 25999 & BS 7799 Lead Auditor, NetAsq CNE & CNA, Juniper JNCIA-FW, Checkpoint CCSE & CCSA, Sun SCNA & SCSA, among others and is the author of InfoSecMan Blog. Samuel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Universidad 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: CISSP, 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