About the Technical Reviewers

These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for Incident Response . As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that Incident Response fits our readers' need for the highest-quality technical information.

Patrick "Swissman" Ramseier, CCNA, CISSP, is the Chief Security Officer for the SARAA Corporation. SARAA (Secure Archive Retrieval Anytime Anywhere) is dedicated to bringing the latest in optical imaging, Internet delivery, and proprietary enabling technologies to revitalize and transform the proven business model of archive storage, management and retrieval companies nationwide in a secure manner. Patrick started out as a UNIX system administrator. Over the past 13 years , he has been involved with corporate-level security design, architecture reviews, vulnerability assessments,VPN support, physical, network and operating system security (UNIX-Solaris, Linux, BSD and Windows NT/2000), training, research and development. He has a B.A. in business and is working concurrently on his masters and doctorate in computer science.

Larry Paccone is a Principal National/Systems Security Analyst at Logicon/TASC. As both a technical lead and project manager, he has worked in the Internet and network/systems security arena for more than eight years. He has been the technical lead for several network security projects supporting a government network/systems security research and development laboratory. Prior to that, Larry worked for five years at The Analytical Sciences Corporation (TASC) as a national security analyst assessing conventional military force structures. He has an M.S. in Information Systems, an M.A. in International Relations, and a B.A. in Political Science. He also has completed eight professional certifications in network and systems security, internet-working, wide area networking, Cisco routing/switching, and Windows NT.