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							Rob VandenBrink
							 Rob VandenBrink is a consultant with Coherent 
							Security in Ontario, Canada.  He is a volunteer with the 
							Internet Storm Center (https://isc.sans.edu), a site 
							that posts daily blogs on information security and 
							related stories.   Rob also contributes as a 
							volunteer to various security Benchmarks at the 
							Center for Internet Security, notably the Palo Alto 
							Networks Firewall Benchmark. His areas of specialization 
							include all facets of Information Security, Network 
							Infrastructure, Network and Datacentre Design, IT 
							Automation,  Orchestration and Virtualization. Rob 
							has developed tools for ensuring policy compliance 
							for VPN Access users, a variety of networking tools 
							native to Cisco IOS, as well as security 
							audit/assessment tools for both Palo Alto Networks 
							Firewalls and VMware vSphere. Rob has a Master's Degree in Information Security 
							Engineering from the SANS Technology Institute 
							(www.sans.edu), and holds a variety of SANS/GIAC, 
							VMware and Cisco Certifications.  | 
						
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							 CISSP ID Number: 434714 
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							 Obtained: 2006-09-06 Analyst# 5737 
							GIAC Gold Papers: 
							
							VPNScan: Extending the Audit and Compliance 
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							Obtained: 2007-02-20 
							Expires: 2022-06-30 
							Analyst# 926  | 
						
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							Obtained: 2007-07-11 
							Analyst# 551  | 
						
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							Obtained: 2007-12-05 
							Analyst# 2771 
							GIAC Gold Papers:
							
							
							
							IOSMap: TCP and UDP Port Scanning on Cisco IOS 
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							Obtained: 2008-08-22 
							Analyst# 9459 
							GIAC Gold Papers:
							
							
							
							IOScat - a Port of Netcat’s TCP functions to Cisco 
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							Obtained: 2009-02-13 
							Analyst# 1489 
							GIAC Gold Papers:
							
							
							
							One Admin's Documentation is their Hacker's Pentest  | 
						
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							Obtained: 2009-12-01 
							Analyst# 168 
							GIAC Gold Papers:
							
							
							
							Brains for Hire / Blame for Hire - The Life and 
							Challenges of a Consulting Project Manager  | 
						
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							Obtained: 2010-11-22 
							Analyst# 2183  | 
						
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							Obtained: 2013-11-21 
							Analyst# 1376  | 
						
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							 Member ID 90352924  | 
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							VCP5-DCV  | 
							
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							 VMware Certified 
							Professional Obtained (original VCP 
							1): 2005-01-21 Obtained (VCP5-DCV): 
							2015-04-22 Retired Certification  | 
						
Link for SANS / GIAC Certs:
					
					https://www.giac.org/certified-professional/robert-vandenbrink/110952