Dan Kaminsky

Bio

Dan Kaminsky, also known as Effugas, is a Senior Security Consultant for Avaya's Enterprise Security Practice, where he works on large-scale security infrastructure. Dan's experience includes two years at Cisco Systems, where he designed security infrastructure for cross-organization network monitoring systems. He is best known for his work on the ultra-fast port scanner, scanrand, part of the "Paketto Keiretsu," a collection of tools that use new and unusual strategies for manipulating TCP/IP networks. He authored the "Spoofing" and "Tunneling" chapters for Hack Proofing Your Network: Second Edition (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-928994-70-9), and has delivered presentations at several major industry conferences, including LinuxWorld, Def Con, and past Black Hat Briefings.