Contributing Authors

Raven Alder is a Senior Security Engineer for IOActive, a consulting firm specializing in network security design and implementation. She specializes in scalable enterprise-level security, with an emphasis on defense in depth. She designs large-scale firewall and IDS systems, and then performs vulnerability assessments and penetration tests to make sure they are performing optimally. In her copious spare time, she teaches network security for LinuxChix.org and checks cryptographic vulnerabilities for the Open Source Vulnerability Database. Raven lives in Seattle, WA. Raven was a contributor to Nessus Network Auditing (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1931836086).

Raven Alder is the author of Chapter 1 and 2.

Andrew R. Baker is ...

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