Kenneth R. van Wyk is an internationally recognized information security expert and author of the recent O'Reilly and Associates books, Incident Response and Secure Coding, as well as a monthly columnist for on-line security portal, eSecurityPlanet (http://www.eSecurityPlanet.com) and a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. Ken is
a CERT® Certified Computer Security Incident Handler and provides consulting and training services through his company, KRvW Associates, LLC, (http://www.KRvW.com).
Ken has nearly 20 years as an IT Security practitioner in the Academic, Military, and Commercial sectors. He has held senior and executive technologist positions at Tekmark, Para-Protect, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), in addition to the U.S. Department of Defense and Carnegie Mellon and Lehigh Universities.
Ken also served a two-year elected position as a member of the Steering Committee, and a one-year elected position as the Chairman of the Steering Committee, for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) organization. At the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Ken was one of the founders of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT®). He holds an engineering degree from Lehigh University and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, and has presented papers and speeches for CSI, ISF, USENIX, FIRST, and others.
