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Doug Brown, former Manager of Security Resources, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

One of the important concepts that we want to explore in security thought leadership is the idea of group or team thought leadership. And so we are looking for examples of teams that exhibited security thought leadership. Doug Brown, former Manager of Security Resources, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was on a team that exhibits many of the characteristics of security thought leadership.

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Amrit Williams, Chief Technology Officer, BigFix

Amrit Williams, Chief Technology Officer at BigFix, was formerly a research director in the Information Security and Risk Research Practice at Gartner, Inc. He is certainly a security thought leader and if you have not been introduced to him before, we are sure you will find he has some interesting out of the box opinions.

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Andrew Hay, Q1 Labs

Andrew Hay, one of the authors of the popular OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection Guide and upcoming Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring book has agreed to be interviewed for the SANS Security Thought Leader series.

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Gene Schultz, CTO of High Tower

The Security Laboratory is pleased to interview Dr. Gene Schultz, one of the most experienced security practitioners in the field.

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Tomasz Kojm, original author of ClamAV

Tomasz Kojm is the original author of ClamAV, an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways.

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Bill Johnson, CEO TDI

Bill Johnson, CEO TDI, was the first person in the industry, that I am aware of, to sound the clarion call that we might be vulnerable to attacks via the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). That certainly qualifies him as a security thought leader, and we thank him for his time.

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Gene Kim, Tripwire

Gene Kim is one of the original authors of Tripwire, a software product used to manage configurations and change. Gene is willing to share his thoughts on virtualization with the Security Laboratory thought leadership series, and we certainly thank him for his time!

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Kevin Kenan, Managing Director, K2 Digital Defense

Imperva and a few other vendors are starting to understand the importance of database security and release product, but Kevin Kenan, Managing Director, K2 Digital Defense picked up on this long ago.

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Leigh Purdie, InterSect Alliance, co-founder of Snare

Perhaps, one of the hottest topics in 2008 is log file analysis (who would have guessed). And while the commercial tools are getting a lot of the press, an open source and also commercial tool is ending up on a lot of systems. It is called Snare and Leigh Purdie is the thought leader behind the project. He has been willing to invest the time for a thought leadership interview with the Security Laboratory

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Marty Roesch, Sourcefire CEO and Snort creator

I keep thinking about the news reports that Chinese hackers managed to exfiltrate six terabytes of sensitive data from a large number of systems belonging to the Department of Homeland Security in November 2007. It seems like that would be impossible to do without being detected. But, I have to wonder, since the famous Richard Stiennon paper, Intrusion Detection is Dead, organizations have been replacing IDS with IPS, and maybe, just maybe, they think the devices do their job in some kind of "fire and forget" mode. Sourcefire was kind enough to allow me to interview Snort creator and Sourcefire CEO Marty Roesch on this topic.

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Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Chief Logging Evangelist with LogLogic

Dr. Anton Chuvakin from LogLogic is probably the number one authority on system logging in the world, and his employer is probably the leading vendor for logging, so we appreciate this opportunity to share in his insights.

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Kishore Kumar, CEO of Pari Networks

One of the ongoing research projects in the Security Laboratory is to work with the thought leaders in information security to get an understanding of their vision for our industry. We have recently had the honor of working with Kishore Kumar, CEO of Pari Networks, and we certainly thank him for his time.

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Interview with Dr. Robert Arn, CTO of Itiva

The Leadership lab came across an interesting company, Itiva. Their CTO, Dr. Robert Arn, was kind enough to share his time and thoughts with our readers, and we certainly thank him for his time.

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Interview with Charles Edge

Charles Edge talks with Stephen Northcutt about security issues in the Mac world; even though the core OS is pretty safe, there are vulnerabilities that every Mac user should be aware of.

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Mike Weider, CTO for Watchfire

Stephen Northcutt interviews Mike Weider, CTO of Watchfire, regarding recent trends in web app vulnerabilities as well as his company's solutions for web application security.

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Interview with authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment

The Leadership Laboratory recently posted a book review of The Art of Software Security Assessment. The book raises a number of issues that we would love to explore further and the authors, Mark Dowd, John McDonald and Justin Schuh have graciously agreed to an interview. One section was titled Code Auditing and the Development Life Cycle and we used that as the basis of the interview.

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Ryan Barnett, Director of Application Security Training at Breach Security, Inc.

Ryan Barnett, Director of Application Security Training at Breach Security, Inc. talks with Stephen Northcutt about the current state of web application security.

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Dinis Cruz, Director of Advanced Technology, Ounce Labs

Dinis Cruz, Director of Advanced Technology for Ounce Labs, talks with Stephen Northcutt about the many facets of OWASP, as well as the important questions that need real answers in order to develop secure web applications.

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Brian Chess, Chief Scientist for Fortify Software

Brian Chess, Chief Scientist for Fortify Software, talks with Stephen Northcutt about static analysis and other web application security solutions.

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Caleb Sima, CTO for SPI Dynamics

Stephen Northcutt interviews Caleb Sima about the development of Caleb's company, SPI Dynamics, and the increasing need for solutions for web application security.

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