About the Authors
The Network Forensics Puzzle contest is written by Sherri Davidoff and Jonathan Ham. We also have occasional guest authors.
Sherri Davidoff is the co-author of the new SANS course “Sec558: Network Forensics” and author of Philosecurity. As a Senior Consultant with her company Lake Missoula Group, LLC, she specializes in forensics, penetration testing and incident response. Sherri is a GIAC-certified forensic examiner and penetration tester. She has consulted for a wide variety of industries, including financial, health care, manufacturing, academic, and government institutions. She holds an S.B. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT.
Jonathan Ham is an independent consultant who specializes in large-scale enterprise security issues, from policy and procedure, through staffing and training, to scalable prevention, detection, and response technology and techniques. With a keen understanding of ROI and TCO, he has helped his clients achieve greater success for over 12 years, advising in both the public and private sectors, from small startups to the Fortune 500. He’s been commissioned to teach NCIS investigators how to use Snort, performed packet analysis from a facility more than 2000 feet underground, and chartered and trained the CIRT for one of the largest U.S. civilian Federal agencies. He currently holds the CISSP, GCIA, and GCIH certifications, and is a Certified Instructor with the SANS Institute.
My co worker just showed me your site. I worked on the DC3 this year. I would love to be made aware of the next contest. It seems like a lot of fun.