Gal Shpantzer

Gal Shpantzer is a trusted advisor to CSOs of large corporations, tech startups, universities and non-profits. Gal has been involved in multiple SANS Institute projects, including co-editing the SANS Newsbites from 2002-2008, revising the E-Warfare course and presenting SANS@Night talks on cyberstalking, CAPTCHAs and endpoint security. In 2009, Gal founded the privacy subgroup of the NIST Smart Grid cybersecurity task group, resulting in the privacy chapter of NIST IR7628. He is a co-author of the Managing Mobile Device Security chapter in the 6th ed. Vol 4 of the Information Security Management Handbook (2010). Most recently Gal collaborated with Dr. Christophe Veltsos to present the Security Outliers project, focusing on the importance of leadership development in the security community.