Ed Skoudis is a hacker. He delights in designing and building computer security challenges and simulations, ranging from fun scavenger hunts for the neighborhood kids all the way up to completely hackable miniature cities. To that end, as Director of the CyberCity project, Ed has lead a team that developed a 6-foot by 8-foot cityscape cyber range with real electric power, water, and other infrastructures to build skills in cyber warriors from the military, government, and select commercial companies. Furthermore, Ed and his team conduct regular penetration tests against some of the biggest, most complex, and technically novel infrastructures in the world. Ed has also researched malware, virtual machine security issues, and SCADA systems, with his team being the first to demonstrate publicly a VMware escape. Ed is the author of SANS Institute courses on Incident Handling and Hacker Attacks (SEC504) and Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking (SEC560). And, finally, Ed wrote the books Counter Hack Reloaded and Malware: Fighting Malicious Code.
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