Carlos A. Ayala Rocha is an Information Security Consultant with more than 10 years of experience in Network Security, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Forensic Analysis, and Incident Response. He has analyzed, designed, and implemented solutions, procedures, and mechanisms focused on risk mitigation for large companies, governments, internet service providers, and homeland security agencies in Mexico and several Latin American countries. He is an Advisory Board Member, Proctor, and Mentor for the SANS Institute, and a founding member of the Mexican Information Security Association (ASIMX). He holds many security industry certifications, such as CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, and GPEN, among others. He currently works as a Consulting Engineer at Arbor Networks for Latin America.

David Shaw has extensive experience in many aspects of information security. Beginning his career as a Network Security Analyst, he monitored perimeter firewalls and intrusion detection systems in order to identify and neutralize threats in real time. After working in the trenches of perimeter analysis, he joined an External Threat Assessment Team as a Security Researcher, working closely with large financial institutions to mitigate external risk and combat phishing attacks. He has particular interests in exploit development and unconventional attack vectors, and was a speaker at ToorCon 12 in San Diego, CA. He is currently the Director of Penetration Testing Technology at Redspin, specializing in external and application security assessments, and managing a team of highly-skilled engineers.