Ed Skoudis

Ed Skoudis is the Vice President of Security Strategy for Predictive Systems. His responsibilities include supporting the development and continual improvement of services for Predictive's Global Integrity Information Security and Managed Services business units.

Ed's expertise includes hacker attacks and defenses, the information security industry, and computer privacy issues. He has performed numerous security assessments, designed secure network architectures, and responded to computer attacks. Ed has focused on identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities on UNIX, Windows NT, firewall architectures, and Web applications.

A frequent speaker on issues associated with hacker tools and effective defenses, Ed has published several articles on these topics, as well as the Prentice Hall book Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses. He has also conducted a demonstration of hacker techniques for the U.S. Senate.

Ed graduated from the University of Michigan and received his Master of Science degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. His prior experience before joining Predictive Systems includes Bell Communications Research.

Ed can be reached at Ed.Skoudis@Predictive.com.

Lenny Zeltser

Lenny Zeltser's work in information security draws upon experience in system administration, software architecture, and independent research. Lenny has worked as a consultant to a major financial institution and has co-founded a software company, and is presently a Director of Information Security at Kiodex, Inc. He has also written and presented coursework for the SANS Institute and reverse-engineered malicious software; he is an active member of several security certification advisory boards as well.

Lenny holds a number of professional certifications, including MCSE, CCSE, GCFW, GCIA, GCUX, and GCIH. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the producer and a co-author of Inside Network Perimeter Security, to be published by New Riders Publishing. More information about his projects and interests is available at www.zeltser.com.