Incident Response

Acknowledgments

We’d like to thank our editors, Sue Miller for her work with us and Debby Russell for recognizing the need for such a book. We’d also like to thank all the O’Reilly people: Colleen Gorman, the production editor; Rob Romano and Jessamyn Read, the technical illustrators; Ellen Troutman-Zaig, the indexer; David Futato, the interior designer; Ellie Volckhausen, the cover designer; Emma Colby for the cover layout; Neil Walls for tools support; and Mary Brady, Nicole Arigo, Molly Shangraw, and Edie Shapiro for production support.

A special thanks to our reviewers Ed DeHart, Nick FitzGerald, Danny Smith, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch, and David Carrano for their useful comments on early copies of this book. Your suggestions went a long way to improving the quality of our book. Thank you.

Kenneth R. van Wyk

In addition to my coauthor, Rick, to whom I am greatly indebted, I would like to thank my family for their support and encouragement throughout this project -- which has taken far longer than I ever envisioned. In particular, I’d like to say thanks to my wife, Caren, who endured my countless hours of “being boring” while clicking (and cursing) away at my keyboard -- “Ditto!” Also, my mom, who helped review several early drafts and provided grammatical and style guidance: “No, my tire is not flat, it is supposed to look that way.” Thanks to my sister, Ingrid, for helping me laugh, and for introducing me to the most wonderful Basset Hound breeder, Red Bay Bassets: “There actually ...