Stephen Northcutt

Stephen Northcutt founded the GIAC certification, currently serves as president of the SANS Technology Institute, a postgraduate level IT security college (www.sans.edu), is a SANS Institute Faculty Fellow, and has received the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Hall of Fame award. Stephen is author/coauthor of Incident Handling Step-by-Step, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Inside Network Perimeter Security 2nd Edition, IT Ethics Handbook, SANS Security Essentials, SANS Security Leadership Essentials and Network Intrusion Detection 3rd edition. He was the original author of the Shadow Intrusion Detection system before accepting the position of chief for information warfare at the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Stephen is a graduate of Mary Washington College. Before entering the field of computer security, he worked as a Navy helicopter search and rescue crewman, white water raft guide, chef, martial arts instructor, cartographer, and network designer.