Ric Messier - Network Forensics

Network Forensics

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This book is dedicated to Atticus and Zoey, who got me through many years.

Ric Messier, MS, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CISSP is an author, consultant, and educator. He has decades of experience in information technology and information security. He has been a programmer, system administrator, network engineer, security engineering manager, VoIP engineer, consultant, and professor. He is a currently Director for Cyber Academic Programs at Circadence and was formerly the Program Director for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. He has published several books on information security and digital forensics.

Charlie Brooks first encountered the Internet in 1978, and hasn't strayed far from it since. Charlie spent 25 years in software development as a developer, technical lead, and software architect, working on software systems for network management, network performance analysis, and managed VPN services. He has been working in information security since 2005 as a course developer and instructor, first in data storage at EMC and then in network security analysis and forensics at RSA. Charlie has developed and taught graduate level courses in network security, data communications, incident response and network forensics, and software security at several colleges and universities in the Greater Boston area, including Boston University and Brandeis University. He currently teaches and develops courses for the Continuing Professional Studies division of Champlain College in Burlington, VT, in the master's programs for Digital Forensics and Operational Security.

Charlie has served as a technical editor for several books, and is the author of All-In-One CHFI Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator Certification Exam Guide from McGraw-Hill (2014), and Securing the Storage Infrastructure in Information Storage and Management: Managing and Protecting Digital Information (EMC Education, 2011). He holds an MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, and the CISSP, CHFI, and CTT+ certifications.

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One of the best things about the different technology fields, should you have the stomach for itand many don'tis the near constant change. Over the decades I have been involved in technology-based work, I've either had to or managed to reinvent myself and my career every handful of years or less. The world keeps changing and in order to maintain pace, we have to change too. In one of my incarnations that ended not many months ago now, I ran graduate and undergraduate programs at Champlain College in its online division. One of my responsibilities within that role was overseeing development of course materials. Essentially, either I or someone I hired developed the course and then I hired people who could teach it, often the people who did the development, though not always.

In the process of developing a course on network forensics, I discovered that there wasn't a lot of material around that covered it. At the time, I was able to find a single book but it wasn't one that we could make use of at the college because of policies focused on limiting costs to students. As a result, when I was asked what my next book would be, a book on network forensics that would explore in more detail the ideas I think are really important to anyone who is doing network investigations made the most sense to me.