David Litchfield is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities ondatabase security. He is the author of the Oracle Hacker's Handbook, theDatabase Hacker's Handbook, SQL Server Security and is the co-author of theShellcoder's Handbook. With over 220 CVE-IDs attributed to David since 1999,and after 8 CERT advisories issued based upon his research (no - he didn'twrite SQL Slammer but he did find the flaw it exploited!), he is currentlyworking for Google as a security engineer.