Michael A. Davis is CEO of Savid Technologies, Inc. a technology and security consulting firm in Chicago. He is also a deployer of intrusion detection systems, with contributions to the Snort Intrusion Detection System. Michael is also a member of the Honeynet project where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for windows based honeynets. Michael has worked with McAfee, Inc. a leader in anti-virus protection and vulnerability management, as Senior Manager of Global Threats where he lead a team of researchers investigating confidential and cutting edge security research. Michael has also worked for companies such as 3Com and managed two Internet Service Providers. Lastly, Michael is an active developer in the Open Source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform including snort and honeyd. Currently, Michael is a contributing author to Hacking Exposed, the number one book on hacker methodology.

Accomplishments:

• Author of “Hacking Exposed”, the definitive Computer Security book
• Speaker and trainer at many security conferences including: Blackhat, Defcon, CanSecWest, and Hack in the Box
• Senior Member of the Honeynet Project with contributes to the Sebek project
• Ported the Snort Intrusion Detection System to Windows NT/2000/XP
• Architected, Developed and deployed a secure Wireless networks covering Northern Illinois and parts of southern Texas
• Ported many unix security utilities such as dsniff and ngrep to Windows
• Develops kernel level device drivers for Windows