Hacking exposed - Stuart Mcclure

Using real-world case studies, this work shows IT professionals how to protect computers and networks against the security vulnerabilities. It provides detailed examples of devious break-ins and helps you learn how to think like a hacker in order to thwart attacks. It also covers code hacking methods and countermeasures.

Stuart McClure (Ladera Ranch, CA)is Senior Vice President of Risk Management Engineering for McAfee, where he is responsible for driving product strategy and marketing for the McAfee Foundstone family of risk mitigation and management solutions. McAfee Foundstone saves countless millions in revenue and hours annually in recovering from hacker attacks, viruses, worms, and malware. Prior to his role at McAfee, Stuart was founder, president, and chief technology officer at Foundstone, Inc., which was acquired by McAfee in October 2004.

Widely recognized for his extensive and in-depth knowledge of security products, Stuart is considered one of the industry's leading authorities in information security today. A published and acclaimed security visionary, he brings many years of technology and executive leadership to McAfee Foundstone, along with profound technical, operational, and financial experience. At Foundstone, Stuart leads both product vision and strategy, and holds operational responsibilities for all technology development, support, and implementation. During his tenure, annual revenues grew over 100 percent every year since the company's inception in 1999.

In 1999, he took the lead in authoringHacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions,the best-selling computer-security book ever, with over 500,000 copies sold to date. Stuart also coauthoredHacking Exposed: WIndows 2000(McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001) andWeb Hacking: Attacks and Defense(Addison-Wesley, 2002).

Prior to Foundstone, Stuart held a variety of leadership positions in security and IT management, with Ernst & Young's National Security Profiling Team, two years as an industry analyst with InfoWorld's Test Center, five years as director of IT with both state and local California governments, two years as owner of an IT consultancy, and two years in IT with the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Stuary holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy, with an emphasis in computer science applications, from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He later earned numerous ceritifications, including ISC2's CISSP, Novell's CNE, and Check Point's CCSE.

Joel Scambray (Woodinville, WA)is Senior Director of Security for Microsoft's MSN.

George Kurtz (Conto de Caza, CA)is Senior Vice President of Risk Managemnt for McAfee.

They are all best-selling authors of all four previous editions ofHacking Exposed.McClure and Scambray also co-authoredHacking Exposed Windows 2000andHacking Exposed Windows Server 2003.Scambray co-authoredHacking Exposed Web Applicationsand Kurtz contributed toHacking Exposed Linux.