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Acknowledgments
and Permissions
We thank God and our many friends within the industry who assist with cyber-
research. Many people contributed to the success of this effort, from the standpoint
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f both providing their research and analysis and sharing enthusiasm for the project.
We also want to thank our many respected colleagues at our former iDefense busi-
ness with whom we fought the good fight against cyber-crime for many years.
e authors of this book were initially encouraged to try to do a book like this
b
y our former boss at iDefense, Joe Payne, who is now CEO of Eloqua (http://
www.eloqua.com). ough that project ended when we left iDe