Taming the Hacking Storm

Acknowledgments

First, I want to thank KnowBe4 CEO Stu Sjouwerman and my team leader, Kathy Wattman, for their unflinching support of my goal to make the Internet a far better and safer place. They let me write, rant, and teach about it every day as my full-time job.

Special thanks to Dr. Loren Kohnfelder. If I can call anyone a mentor, it’s Loren. Loren invented digital certificates in 1978 and is considered by many to be the “Father of PKI.” He has never stopped trying to fix all the hardest problems in computer security. In our weekly talks, we regularly discuss how to fight hackers and improve Internet security. Loren was my sounding board for much of this project, he was my biggest constructive critic, and he always pushed me to better threat model everything I proposed.

Forever thanks to Bruce Schneier. His writings and books have impacted my thinking on how to better secure the Internet more than anyone else. He gets it better than anyone else.

I want to give special thanks to Tim Draegen, founder of Dmarcian and co-creator of DMARC. As one of the only people I know who has actually created and implemented a widespread recent Internet security standard, he has spent hours counseling me on how to be more effective and persuasive in trying to get my own solutions implemented.

Thanks to Zeke Hill, senior anti-cheat analyst at Riot Games, for educating me about how to best mitigate fake device IDs.

I want to thank Jim Minatel and Wiley for greenlighting this book. This is ...