Gal Shpantzer

Gal Shpantzer has 12 years of experience as an independent security professional and is a trusted advisor to CSOs of large corporations, technology and pharma startups, Ivy League universities and non-profits/NGOs specializing in critical infrastructure protection. Gal has been involved in multiple SANS Institute projects, including co-editing the SANS Newsbites, revising the E-Warfare course and presenting SANS@Night talks on cyberstalking, CAPTCHAs and endpoint security. In 2009, he founded and led 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 6th ed. Vol 4 of the Information Security Management Handbook (2010) with the late Dr. Eugene Schultz. Gal collaborated with Dr. Christophe Veltsos to present the ongoing Security Outliers project, focusing on the role of culture in risk management at RSA, CSI, BSides and Baythreat conferences. Most recently, he was involved as a subject matter expert in the development of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electric Sector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (ESC2M2) in 2012. Gal is currently involved in the Infosec Burnout research project and co-presented on this topic at BSides-Las Vegas (2011) and RSA (2012).