Ed Skoudis

Ed Skoudis is a security consultant with International Network Services. He has performed numerous security assessments, designed secure network architectures, and responded to computer attacks for clients in financial, high technology, healthcare, and other industries. Ed has conducted a demonstration of hacker techniques against financial institutions for the United States Senate and is a frequent speaker on issues associated with hacker tools and defenses. He is the founder of the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum and Counter Hack and serves as President of SANS Technology Institute. He has published several articles on cybersecurity and is the author of Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses and Malware: Fighting Malicious Code.