Gal Shpantzer (@Shpantzer) is a trusted advisor to CSOs of major corporations, technology startups, large universities and non-profits/NGOs, focusing on ransomware and other disruptive threats. Gal has been involved in multiple SANS Institute projects, including co-editing the SANS Newsbites since 2002, revising the E-Warfare course and presenting talks on cyberstalking, CAPTCHAs and endpoint security. In 2009, he founded the privacy subgroup of the NIST Smart Grid cybersecurity task group, resulting in the privacy chapter of NIST IR 7628. He is a co-author of the Managing Mobile Device Security chapter in the Information Security Management Handbook (2010) and technical editor of the O’Reilly book on Blue Team (2017). While working with EnergySec on threat intelligence sharing in the electric sector, Gal contributed to the ES-C2M2 security assessment standard (2012), and the Publicly Accessible Control Systems Working Group.
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