Stephen Northcutt

Stephen Northcutt founded the GIAC certification and served as the founding president of the SANS Technology Institute, an accredited graduate school focused on cyber security. Stephen is author/coauthor of Incident Handling Step-by-Step, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Inside Network Perimeter Security 2nd Edition, IT Ethics Handbook, 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.