Hacker

Eric Cole has worked in the information security arena for over 10 years. He is certified as a CISSP, MCSE and CCNA. Eric is very involved with the SANS Institute. He teaches a variety of courses and has created several courses. He is currently in charge of the Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI). Eric is also a member of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure) editorial board and the Honey Net Project.. Eric has extensive experience in the security and hacking area and devotes a lot of time to performing penetration testing for various clients. These clients range from banks, to hospitals, to health care providers, to large construction companies. Eric has also spent several years at the CIA performing security testing and red teaming. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has taught at NYIT.

Education

Pace University - finishing Doctorate in Network Security

George Mason University - Ph.D. (ABD) in Computer Security

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) - MS in Computer Science

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) - BS in Computer Science

Organizations

Editorial board member for CVE (Common vulnerability and exposures)

Member of the Honey Net Project

Director of the SANS CDI (Cyber Defense Initiative)

Frequent presenter at SANS, network security conferences

Member of ACM, IEEE, CSI (Computer Security Institute), ISSA (Information Systems Security Association), ICSA (international Computer Security Association), and International Who's Who in Information Technology

Certifications

CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional)

MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)

Several Vendor's Product Certification

Help develop several GIAC certification programs

Technical Skills Summary

Computer Security: Cryptography, Steganography, Intrusion detection, NT security, Unix security, TCP/IP, and Network security, Internet security, Router security, Security assessment, Penetration testing, Firewalls, Secure web transactions, Electronic commerce, SSL, TLS, IPSEC, Information Warfare.

Internet: Java, HTML, CGI, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, Various other Internet and routing protocols,Protocol analysis, Routers, Sockets, Various Internet browsers.

Programming: C/C++, Java, Perl, Delphi, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Powerbuilder, Pascal, Level IV, Fortran, Basic, Assembly, LISP, Prolog, Modula2.

Operating System: Windows 95/98 Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0 (server and workstation), Windows 2000, UNIX (Linux, BSDi, Solaris), Windows 3.1, DOS, OS/2.