Mike Chapple

Ed Tittel is a principal at LANWrights, Inc. and a VP of IT Certifications at LANWrights' parent company, iLearning.com. Ed has more than 20 years of computer industry experience in a variety of roles. He taught on security subjects at Interop, the Internet Security Conference (tisc.mactivity.com), and Austin Community College since 1996, and specializes in Windows and Internet security topics. Ed has also written extensively on a broad range of certification topics, and follows certification for numerous Web sites and publications including Certification magazine, to which he is a contributing editor. Ed has contributed to 100-plus computer trade books, developed the Exam Cram series for Coriolis, and has penned 100s of Web and magazine articles including many on computer and network security. He serves as the series editor for the Training Guide series and Que's Exam Cram2 series.

Mike Chapple serves as Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a brand identity consultancy based out of Miami, Florida. He previously served as a computer security researcher with the U.S. National Security Agency, participating in the development of advanced network intrusion detection systems. Mike holds both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and is a proud alum of the University of Notre Dame. His professional credentials include the MCP, MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA and CCSA certifications. Heß³ also pursuing CISSP and other advanced security certifications. Mike has contributed to numerous Microsoft certification titles for Course Technology, including topics in the Microsoft and other security curricula.

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is an MCSE who trains and writes in many areas of computer and network security. Her background in law enforcement makes her unusually well suited to tackle and explain legal and circumstantial requirements for confidentiality, privacy, and gathering of evidence. She writes regularly for Windows technical resources that include Brainbuzz, Swynk, and TechRepublic. She has worked on more than 15 books, including numerous titles on networking, computer, and systems security.

Mike Chapple

Mike Chapple is an information technology professional and faculty member at the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. Mike also spent four years in the information security research group at the National Security Agency and serving as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. He is the author of thirteen books, including Information Security Illuminated, SQL Server 2008 for Dummies, and the CISSP Prep Guide.

Debra Littlejohn Shinder

Ed Tittel is a principal at LANWrights, Inc. and a VP of IT Certifications at LANWrights' parent company, iLearning.com. Ed has more than 20 years of computer industry experience in a variety of roles. He taught on security subjects at Interop, the Internet Security Conference (tisc.mactivity.com), and Austin Community College since 1996, and specializes in Windows and Internet security topics. Ed has also written extensively on a broad range of certification topics, and follows certification for numerous Web sites and publications including Certification magazine, to which he is a contributing editor. Ed has contributed to 100-plus computer trade books, developed the Exam Cram series for Coriolis, and has penned 100s of Web and magazine articles including many on computer and network security. He serves as the series editor for the Training Guide series and Que's Exam Cram2 series.

Mike Chapple serves as Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a brand identity consultancy based out of Miami, Florida. He previously served as a computer security researcher with the U.S. National Security Agency, participating in the development of advanced network intrusion detection systems. Mike holds both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and is a proud alum of the University of Notre Dame. His professional credentials include the MCP, MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA and CCSA certifications. He¿s also pursuing CISSP and other advanced security certifications. Mike has contributed to numerous Microsoft certification titles for Course Technology, including topics in the Microsoft and other security curricula.

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is an MCSE who trains and writes in many areas of computer and network security. Her background in law enforcement makes her unusually well suited to tackle and explain legal and circumstantial requirements for confidentiality, privacy, and gathering of evidence. She writes regularly for Windows technical resources that include Brainbuzz, Swynk, and TechRepublic. She has worked on more than 15 books, including numerous titles on networking, computer, and systems security.

Debra Littlejohn Shinder

Debra Littlejohn Shinder, MCSE, MCT, is an instructor and trainer at Eastfield College in Dallas County, Texas. She is also a technology consultant for TACteam: Training and Consulting, which she co-owns with her husband Tom Shinder. She writes regularly for Windows technical resources that include Brainbuzz, Swynk, and TechRepublic. Debra has worked on more than 15 books, including numerous titles on networking, computers, and systems security.

Ed Tittel

Dan Balter is the Chief Technology Officer for InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner company. He works as an IT consultant and trainer for both corporate and government clients and has worked with several different network operating systems throughout his 20-year career. Dan takes pride in turning complex, technical topics into easy-to-understand concepts. Dan is a Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST), a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. He specializes in Microsoft networking technologies, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and other security solutions in addition to designing and implementing messaging and business solutions for large and small organizations.

Dan is the author of Exam Cram 2: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment and a co-author for the best-selling books Exam Cram 2: Windows XP Professional and Exam Cram 2: Windows 2000 Professional, all published by Que Publishing. Dan frequently speaks at conferences across North America, including Advisor DevCon conferences and Windows & .NET Magazine Connections conferences. A graduate of USC's School of Business in 1983, Dan has authored more than 300 video-based and CD-ROMߢased computer training courses, including instructional titles on installing, configuring, and administering Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. He is also a featured video trainer for courses on Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, and Intuit's QuickBooks small business accounting software. Dan is the video trainer for ExamBlastߗindows XP Professional and for the QuickBooks Pro training series on video and CD-ROM from BlastThroughLearning.com.

Dan and his family live in the Santa Rosa Valley area in Southern California, near the city of Camarillo. Dan lives with his lovely wife, Alison; their 8-year-old daughter, Alexis; their 5-year-old son, Brendan; and their golden retriever, Brandy. When he's not writing, researching, or consulting, Dan enjoys traveling with his family, swimming, playing racquetball and basketball, rooting for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team and the L.A. Lakers, going for long walks, listening to music, and exploring new age spirituality. Dan can be contacted via email at Dan@TechPartners.info.

Philip Wiest is a nationally known professional technical trainer who has presented more than 1,200 Cisco and Microsoft seminars to more than 37,000 students throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia since 1989 for Skillpath Seminars, CompuMaster Seminars, Prime Learning International, and Dun & Bradstreet. He has earned several prominent certifications, including the MCSE; CCNP; CCDA; Network+; Server+; Security+; A+; and, most recently, the new MCDST designation.

He delights audiences by crashing (often with little effort) and then resurrecting (often with much effort) unsuspecting software programs and network applications. His unique, irreverent, solutions-oriented style is at once humorous and insightful.

Philip's clients include The Walt Disney Company, the FBI, American Express, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, ARCO, Bank of America, KPMG, Sony, EMI Records Group N.A., the National Association of Realtors, Warner Bros., and on and on.

Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he has published more than 200 newspaper and magazine articles, received dozens of national training awards, and completed 15 marathons. He resides in Santa Monica, California, never more than a stone's throw from a keyboard or a microphone.

Ed Tittel

Ed Tittel is a 30-year-plus veteran of the computing industry who has worked as a programmer, a technical manager, a classroom instructor, a network consultant, and a technical evangelist for companies that include Burroughs, Schlumberger, Novell, IBM/Tivoli, and NetQoS. He has written and blogged for numerous publications, including Tom's IT Pro, PearsonITCertification, and GoCertify; and is an author on more than 100 computing books with a special emphasis on information security, Web markup languages and development tools, and Windows operating systems.