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About the Authors
Jim Melnick (M.A., Harvard University; M.A.,
U.S. Naval War College; and Colonel, U.S. Army
Reserves, Military Intelligence, retired) is the direc
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or of global threat intelligence at iSIGHT Partners,
Inc., based in Dallas. He formerly served with
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Defense/VeriSign, where he founded and managed
the Weekly reat Report,
cited by Business Week
in 2005 as providing “some of the most incisive
a
nalysis in the business, particularly about Russian
hackers.” Mr. Melnick is a recognized expert in
threat intelligence and cyber-crime issues as these
relate to computer security, and has been cited in
such publicatio