Lane Nicholas - Casp+ Comptia Advanced Security Practitioner Certification All-in-one Exam Guide, Exam Cas-003

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I must thank my wife, Tiffany, for managing our home, children, and all the homework during this long project. This would be a challenging endeavor for anyone, especially while pregnant. Without her, this book could not have happened.

Nicholas Lane

I would like to thank my wife, best friend, muse, and love, Susan, for all the sacrifices she has made as I appropriated family time to play cat herder one more time. Without her support, I could not accomplish half of what I do.

Art Conklin, Ph.D.

I need to thank my wife, Charlan, for all of the support and encouragement she has provided throughout not just this book, but all of our over thirty years together. It keeps getting better and I owe that to her.

Gregory White, Ph.D.

Thanks to my loving wife, Leah, for all her love, support, and understanding. And to my children for forgiving Daddy when he often missed that last book before bedtime.

Dwayne Williams

Nicholas Lane is an award-winning technical instructor at New Horizons Computer Learning Centers and a practitioner with 20 years of experience in the technology industry. At the 2018 Hacker Halted conference by EC-Council, Lane was recognized as one of the top 5 EC-Council security instructors in North America. He has delivered advanced security certification training to all branches of the military and government, including the FBI and DoD. He is a member of InfraGard, which is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector in pursuance of national security objectives for U.S. critical infrastructure. As a member of CompTIAs Network+ Advisory Committee, Lane has the distinction of being one of the designers of CompTIAs Network+ certification. He was a contributing author to McGraw-Hill Educations CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Study Guide, Second Edition (Exam CV0-002). He is a speaker at technology conference events and is a certification blogger for CompTIA. Lane also serves on CompTIAs Instructor Network Advisory Committee, which provides instructor and certification resources to thousands of instructors worldwide. He holds numerous certifications, including CISSP, CEH, CEI, MCT, MCSE, CASP+, MCITP, Security+, and others.

Wm. Arthur Conklin is an associate professor in the College of Technology at the University of Houston. He is also the Director for the Center for Information Security Research and Education. Conklin has a terminal degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at San Antonio in business administration. He currently holds Security+, CASP+, CISSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CSDP, and DFCP certifications. Conklins research interests lie in the areas of software assurance and the application of systems theory to security issues associated with critical infrastructures. His dissertation was on the motivating factors for home users in adopting security on their own PCs. He has coauthored five books on information security and has written and presented numerous conference and academic journal papers. He has over 10 years of teaching experience at the college level and has assisted in building two information security programs that have been recognized by the NSA and DHS as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. A former U.S. Navy officer, he was also previously the Technical Director at the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Gregory White has been involved in computer and network security since 1986. He spent 19 years on active duty with the U.S. Air Force and 11 years in the Air Force Reserves before retiring after a combined 30 years of service. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University in 1995. His dissertation topic was in the area of computer network intrusion detection, and he continues to conduct research in this area today. He is currently the Director for the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security and is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. White has written and presented numerous articles and conference papers on security. He is also the coauthor of five textbooks on computer and network security and has written chapters for two other security books. White continues to be active in security research. His current research initiatives include efforts in high-speed intrusion detection, community infrastructure protection, and visualization of community and organization security postures and incident response.