Kurtz George - Hacking exposed 7: network security secrets and solutions

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To my amazing boys (who hack me on a daily basis), I love you beyond words. FANMW URKSHI. To my Dawn, for her seemingly endless patience and loveI never knew the meaning of both until you. And to the new girls in my life, Jessica and Jillian I love you.
Stuart McClure

To Austin, TX, my new home and a great place to live; hopefully were helping keep it weird.
Joel Scambray

To my loving family, Anna, Alexander, and Allegra who provide inspiration and support, allowing me to follow my passion. To the late Joe Petrella, for always reminding me many are calledfew are chosen
George Kurtz

Stuart McClure

Stuart McClure, CNE, CCSE, is the CEO/President of Cylance, Inc., an elite global security services and products company solving the worlds most difficult security problems for the most critical companies around the globe. Prior to Cylance, Stuart was Global CTO for McAfee/Intel, where he was responsible for a nearly $3B consumer and corporate security products business. During his tenure at McAfee, Stuart McClure also held the General Manager position for the Security Management Business for McAfee/Intel, which enabled all McAfee corporate security products to be operationalized, managed, and measured. Alongside those roles, Stuart McClure ran an elite team of good guy hackers inside McAfee called TRACE that discovered new vulnerabilities and emerging threats. Before McAfee, Stuart helped run security at the largest healthcare company in the U.S., Kaiser Permanente. In 1999, Stuart was also the original founder of Foundstone, Inc., a global consulting and products company, which was acquired by McAfee in 2004.

Stuart is the creator, lead author, and original founder of the Hacking Exposed series of books and has been hacking for the good guys for over 25 years. Widely recognized and asked to present his extensive and in-depth knowledge of hacking and exploitation techniques, Stuart is considered one of the industrys leading authorities on information security risk today. A well-published and acclaimed security visionary, McClure brings a wealth of technical and executive leadership with a profound understanding of both the threat landscape and the operational and financial risk requirements to be successful in todays world.

Joel Scambray

Joel is a Managing Principal at Cigital, a leading software security firm established in 1992. He has assisted companies ranging from newly minted startups to members of the Fortune 500 to address information security challenges and opportunities for over 15 years.

Joels background includes roles as an executive, technical consultant, and entrepreneur. He cofounded and led information security consulting firm Consciere before it was acquired by Cigital in June 2011. He has been a Senior Director at Microsoft Corporation, where he provided security leadership in Microsofts online services and Windows divisions. Joel also cofounded security software and services startup Foundstone, Inc. and helped lead it to acquisition by McAfee in 2004. He previously held positions as a Manager for Ernst & Young, security columnist for Microsoft TechNet, Editor at Large for InfoWorld Magazine, and Director of IT for a major commercial real-estate firm.

Joel is a widely recognized writer and speaker on information security. He has co-authored and contributed to over a dozen books on IT and software security, many of them international best-sellers. He has spoken at forums including Black Hat, as well as for organizations, including IANS, CERT, CSI, ISSA, ISACA, and SANS, private corporations, and government agencies, including the FBI and the RCMP.