Meet the Coauthors

I couldn't have gotten this book out quickly enough without the hard work of my coauthors Byron Hynes and Jennifer Allen.

I met Byron Hynes at TechEd through a mutual friend, Steve Riley, at Microsoft. Byron is a guy who's spent many years teaching technical seminars and writing documentation. He just joined Microsoft a year ago and is hard at work doing the security-related documentation about Server 2007. He also may be the single human being on the planet who best understands the new BitLocker encryption system that arrives with Vista-so I was pretty happy to hear that he'd do the BitLocker chapter for this book. But don't worry that you'll just get a sales pitch from him-Byron's a straight shooter when it comes to talking about Windows strengths, as well as weaknesses. Jennifer Allen is a technical writer and editor in the Microsoft Security Technology group, where she manages and creates documentation for security technologies. Jennifer resides in Seattle, Washington, and is a native of Washington state.

I greatly appreciate each coauthor's hard work, and I think you'll enjoy their contributions.