About the Authors

Wes Noonan, CISA, is a staff quality engineer at NetIQ working on their security solutions product line. Wes has more than 12 years of industry experience, specializing in Windows-based networks and network infrastructure security design and implementation. Wes is the author of Hardening Network Infrastructure (ISBN 0072255021), is a contributing/co-author of CISSP Training Guide (ISBN 078972801X) and Hardening Network Security(ISBN 0072257032), and is a technical editor for Hacking Exposed: Cisco Networks(ISBN 0072259175). Wes also maintains a Windows network security "Ask the Experts" section for Techtarget.com (http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/ateAnswers/0,289620,sid45_tax298206,00.html). Wes lives in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area with his wife and two bulldogs.

Ido Dubrawsky, CISSP, is the strategic security advisor for the Communications Sector at Microsoft. Prior to working at Microsoft, Ido was the owner and president of Silicon Security, Inc. (http://www.siliconsec.com), a mid-Atlantic network security consulting company, as well as the acting national practice lead for the security consulting practice at AT&T/Callisma. Before joining AT&T/Callisma, Ido worked for more than four years at Cisco Systems, Inc., as both a network security engineer as well as a network security architect on the SAFE project.