Governance: Administrators

• Most Advanced Degree
  Bachelor's degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting, San Jose State University

• Director of Courseware/Books Management

Katherine Webb Calhoon earned her bachelor's degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting, with a minor in Journalism, from San Jose State University. Her career has included coordinating visitor services and a volunteer program for the San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau and serving as Associate Director of Communications for the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce. Following her tenure at the chamber, she was the Chief Development Officer for InnVision, a nonprofit organization providing services to the homeless. While at the chamber and InnVision, Katherine planned high profile fundraising events with luminaries such as Colin Powell, Elizabeth Dole, and Christopher Reeve.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Ph.D., Computer Science, Pace University
• Field of Experience
  Information Security Expert. See details below.
• Email: ecole@secureanchor.com

• MSISE Program Director
• SANS Faculty Fellow
• Course Lead
• Course Author
• STI Committee Member

Dr. Cole is an industry-recognized security expert with over 20 years of hands-on experience. Dr. Cole has experience in information technology with a focus on helping customers focus on the right areas of security by building out a dynamic defense. Dr. Cole has a master's degree in computer science from NYIT and a doctorate from Pace University with a concentration in information security. He served as CTO of McAfee and Chief Scientist for Lockheed Martin. Dr. Cole is the author of several books, including Advanced Persistent Threat, Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Sight, Network Security Bible 2nd Edition, 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 the founder and an executive leader at Secure Anchor Consulting where he provides leading-edge cyber security consulting services, expert witness work, and leads research and development initiatives to advance the state-of-the-art in information systems security. Dr. Cole is actively involved with the SANS Technology Institute (STI) and is a SANS faculty Fellow and course author who works with students, teaches, and develops and maintains courseware.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Ph.D. Purdue University
• Field of Experience
  Please see below.

• Dean of Academic Affairs
• STI Faculty Advisor Chair
• STI Committee Member

Dr. Ray Davidson is the Dean of Academic Affairs for the Institute. Ray has served as a Mentor and Technical Reviewer for the SANS Institute and holds several GIAC certifications. He is an engineer (the original "hackers") both by temperament and by training. Ray received Bachelor's and PhD degrees from Georgia Tech and Purdue University respectively. He worked as a research scientist and IT manager for a major pharmaceutical company for 20 years, and most recently taught networking and security at Purdue. At STI, he will be working directly with students as a faculty advisor, and creating and grading student assignments. He will also be helping prepare the Institute for accreditation, reviewing courses and the curricula, and creating processes to prepare for STI - The Next Generation. He is extremely proud to be working with the best infosec educational institution and the finest infosec students on the planet.

• Director of Residential Institute/Conference Management

Lana Emery has many years experience working with law enforcement: Pacific Northwest Law Enforcement Training Center Training Manager; Fellow at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; Export Training Site Coordinator; and as a special deputy. She owns a consulting business; and, previously, she owned and managed a successful business for 32 years.

• Most Advanced Degree
  PhD, Applied Management and Decision Sciences, Walden University
• Field of Experience
  IT-Enabled Change Management

• Provost

Dr. Gouker has over 30 years of management experience in industry and academia. His industry experience includes serving as: Chief Strategy Officer for a federal contractor, leading business development and strategic growth on DHS, DoD, and VA contracts; Chief Operating Officer for another federal contractor where he managed contracts in training and IT Services for a variety of civilian branches (NIH, FDA, NSF); and Director of Operations for a biotech firm where he managed day-to-day operations at eleven international facilities. Dr. Gouker's academic experience includes serving as: Provost at Lyman Spalding Institute, where led the effort to build a global continuing education program for scientists and engineers to ensure pharmaceutical workforce capacity; Vice President of University Affairs at American Graduate University, where he functioned as the lead academic and operating officer; and Executive Director at Laureate Education, Inc. where he led National Technological University through its merger with Walden University. Dr. Gouker holds Adjunct Faculty status at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, American Graduate University, and DeVry University where he has taught a variety of technology, project management, and general management courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. He is also the co-author of the Control Account Manager's Handbook.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Master of Science in Information Security Engineering, SANS Technology Institute
• Field of Experience
  See details below.

• STI Course Advisor
• Director on the Board of SANS Technology Institute

Richard is currently a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a senior Network/System administrator, Organizational Computer Security Representative (OCSR), and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for the Advanced Nuclear Technology group (N-2). He has experience with most operating systems and many programming languages. Network and System security has become a larger part of his job description in the last ten years; Richard attended his first SANS conference in 1998. He is a former high school Mathematics and Computer Science teacher and is currently teaching Networks I&II, Server Configuration, and System Security courses at the College of Santa Fe. He currently holds GIAC GSEC, GCFW, GCIA, GCIH, GCUX, GCNA, and GSPA certifications. He is a former Chair/Vice Chair of the GCFW advisory board and was the first graduate of the SANS Technology Institute (MSISE).

• Director - Talent

Deborah began her career with SANS in 2003 and currently manages 40+ SANS instructors. She is also responsible for recruitment and development of new instructors. Previously, she owned a marketing/graphic design business, managed resellers of a software developer company and was the fiscal manager of a domestic violence agency.

• Most Advanced Degree
  MBA, Southeastern University

• Chief Business Officer

Peggy Logue is also the Controller for SANS Institute with a team of eleven performing the finance, registration, purchasing and conference related functions for the organization. Peggy has a B.S. in Accounting from Tennessee Technological University and an MBA from Southeastern University. Prior to coming to SANS in September 2007, she worked for Airbus, North America for 21 years in the Finance Department, with her most recent position as the Business Controller.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Bachelor of Science, Mary Washington College

• Director, Academic Advising
• Ex-Officio Director on the Board of SANS Technology Institute
• SANS Faculty Fellow
• Course Author
• Course Lead
• STI Committee Member
• STI Faculty Advisor

Stephen Northcutt founded the GIAC certification and served as president of the SANS Technology Institute. 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.

Since 2007 Stephen has conducted over 40 in-depth interviews with leaders in the security industry, from CEOs of security product companies to the most well-known practitioners, in order to research the competencies required to be a successful leader in the security field. He maintains the SANS Leadership Laboratory, where research on these competencies is posted, as well as SANS Security Musings. He leads the Management 512 Alumni Forum, where hundreds of security managers post questions. He is the lead author/instructor for Management 512: SANS Security Leadership Essentials for Managers, a prep course for the GSLC certification that meets all levels of requirements for DoD Security Managers per DoD 8570. He also is the lead author/instructor for Management 514: IT Security Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership. Stephen blogs at the SANS Security Laboratory.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Masters, Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and B.S., Engineering, Cornell University.
• Field of Experience
  Public Policy and Marketing Security in Large Organizations. See details below.

• President of SANS Technology Institute
• Advisor on Presentations

Alan Paller is the president for SANS Technology Institute and director of research for the SANS Institute, responsible for projects ranging from the Internet Storm Center (the Internets early warning system with 500,000 sensors around the world) to the Top Ten Security Menaces of the coming year. He also edits NewsBites, the twice-weekly summary of the most important news stories in security. But he says his most satisfying responsibility is finding people who have solved important security problems and helping SANS 85,000 alumni in 60 countries learn about those people and their discoveries.

Alan earned degrees in computer science and engineering from Cornell and MIT. He wrote hundreds of articles on computer graphics, EIS and computer security, and authored two books, The EIS Book: Information Systems for Top Managers and How to Give the Best Presentation of Your Life.

He has testified before the House and Senate, and in 2001 the President named Alan as one of the original members of the National Infrastructure Assurance Council. In 2005 the Federal CIO Council chose him as its annual Azimuth Award winner recognizing his singular vision and outstanding service to government information technology.

His degrees are from Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Most Advanced Degree
  MBA

• Director of Enrollment Management

Mary Kay Porter comes to SANS/STI from a background of business and higher education with a specialty in growing organizations. Most recently she was a Center Dean for DeVry University/Keller Graduate School of Management.

• Most Advanced Degree
  M.A. degree in Educational Administration and Leadership, University of Pacific

• Director for Institutional Effectiveness

As the Director for Institutional Effectiveness for STI, Matthew Scott coordinates and documents both the student learning outcomes assessment and the institutional effectiveness processes. Currently, Matthew spearheads the Self-Study for the college's accreditation by MSCHE. He and the Director of Enrollment Management also manage student enrollment. Matthew received a B.A. degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach and a M.A. degree in Educational Administration and Leadership, specializing in Higher Education Administration, from the University of Pacific. Matthew's research interests include educational policy, leadership, and student learning assessment.

• Most Advanced Degree
  M.S. in Information Systems

• Vice President of Operations

David Turley oversees the Network Operations Centers housing SANS production and development environments, and he manages the SANS systems administrators. In addition, he is the Privacy and Compliance Officer for SANS. David also serves as production manager and final editor on SANS NewsBites. Prior to joining SANS, David worked on various Internet development projects, including one of the first secure Internet applications used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also developed web-based system management tools while working with a contractor at the Pentagon. David developed "pre-Ebay" Internet auction systems and was a consultant to organizations setting up Internet commerce sites. He holds a M.S. degree in Information Systems.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Ph.D. Physics, SUNY Albany
• Field of Experience
  Information Security Research Expert. See details below

• STI Dean of Research
• SANS Senior Instructor
• STI Committee Member
• STI & SANS Chief Research Officer
• Manager of GIAC Gold Program
• Manager of the Internet Storm Center

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is the Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. In November of 2000, Johannes started the DShield.org project, which he later integrated into the Internet Storm Center. His work with the Internet Storm Center has been widely recognized. In 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Secure Computing Magazine named him in 2005 one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers. His research interests include IPv6, Network Traffic Analysis and Secure Software Development. Johannes is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has been interviewed by major publications, radio as well as TV stations. He is a member of the SANS Technology Institute's Faculty and Administration as well as Curriculum and Long Range Planning Committee. As chief research officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the GIAC Gold program. 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. He also maintains a daily security news summary podcast and enjoys blogging about application security.

• Most Advanced Degree
  Ph.D., Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

• MSISM Program Director, SANS

Jim Voorhees was named MSISM Program Director of SANS Technology Institute (STI) in November 2011. A graduate of STI, Dr. Voorhees has had a varied career in government and private industry. He earned his Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies after earning degrees in International Affairs from the George Washington University and working on the editorial staff of the International Food Policy Research Institute. After writing a book for the Kettering Foundation (Dialogue Sustained) and experience with Kettering, the Congressional Research Service, and IREX, Dr. Voorhees entered the IT industry as a technical writer, he quickly moved on to systems administration, then IT security and SANS. He has worked on security at several government agencies, including the FBI and the IRS, and currently works for Sage Management as a Network Security Engineer on a DOD contract.