ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chuck Easttom has over 20 years of practical experience in all aspects of the IT industry. That experience includes teaching and practicing all aspects of computer security, including forensics. In addition to the practical experience, he has been teaching IT topics for over 14 years. Most notably, he has taught forensics to the U.S. Secret Service and to the Internal Revenue Service, as well as private companies. This is his eighteenth book and his second forensics book. He also has 29 different IT certifications, including CISSP, CISSP- ISSAP, CHFI, and CEH, and three computer-related patents. Mr. Easttom also frequently serves as an expert witness in computer-related cases. You can find out more about him at www.ChuckEasttom.com.
About the Technical Editor
George (Buzz) Murphy, CISSP, CASP, is a sought-after public speaker, corporate trainer, author, and cybersecurity evangelist who has touched the lives of thousands of adult learners across the country over the past 20 years with courses, seminars, and consulting presentations on a variety of technology topics. A former Dell technology training executive, he has addressed audiences at Comdex, NetWorld, and the National Computer Conference. Buzz has earned more than 19 IT and cybersecurity certifications from (ISC)2, CompTIA, and many other industry organizations. Having held a top-secret security clearance in both U.S. and NATO intelligence, he has trained network cybersecurity ops for the U.S. Army, various government security agencies, and foreign military personnel across Conus and EMEA, and has been involved with facilitating such subjects as site EMP hardening, cryptographic methodology, and computer forensic sciences as well as cyber-warfare training.