David Hoelzer
Admissions Committee at SANS Institute
Town of Shelter Island, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hoelzer is an experienced information security and digital forensics leader with 19 years of practice and a career stretching back to the 1990s, currently serving on multiple committees and leadership roles at the SANS Technology Institute. He founded and runs Enclave Forensics, has authored and taught SANS curricula, created the original GIAC exam management system and the GSE certification, and advises graduate research—combining hands-on incident response and disk forensics with academic stewardship. His background spans CISO-level operational security, intrusion detection architecture, policy and curriculum development, and entrepreneurship including founding and exiting a crypto management startup. Based on Long Island, he blends deep technical rigor with practical, regulatory-aware forensic practice and a knack for translating complex investigations into teachable frameworks.
19 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityAdvanced Chemistry, Advanced Chemistry at Adelphi UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Stony Brook UniversityCentral Islip High SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at AIU
Spanish, German, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
16,041reputation
2.5mreached
551answers
16questions
nasm
top-5%
assembly
top-1%
networking
top-5%
tcp
top-5%
x86
top-5%
linux
top-5%
Github Skills (68)
python10
assembly10
depth10
linux9
network-analysis9
deep-learning9
networking9
jupyterlab9
machine-learning9
tcp9
nasm9
jupyter9
x869
jupyterlab-extension9
tensorflow9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dhoelzer/ShowMeThePackets
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Useful network monitoring, analysis, and active response tools used or mentioned in the SANS SEC503 course (https://www.sans.org/course/intrusion-detection-in-depth)
Contributions:44 commits, 6 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 11 months
snmpintrusionsecuritydepthnetwork-monitoring
dhoelzer/DAD
Mar 2007 - Dec 2015
Contributions:491 commits, 872 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 10 months
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