Gary
Bahadur, a cofounder of Foundstone Inc and it's Chief Information
Officer, is responsible for the Foundstone infrastructure and
operations that support the consulting and training services.
Foundstone's research and development labs are a key part of
the security solutions provided to our clients to empower them
to secure their own environments. In addition to internal corporate
responsibilities, Gary provides security consulting and training
services to Foundstone's clients. Areas of expertise include
security architecture reviews, and ethical hacking reviews focusing
on UNIX and Windows NT systems.
Gary
has been involved with numerous penetration studies and network
reviews covering various firewalls, UNIX, Windows NT, Novell
networks, Web servers, Internet connectivity, SAP security
in UNIX and Windows NT environments, routers, during the past
7 years. Gary has helped develop the methodologies for network
security reviews and was one of the co-developers of the "Extreme
Hacking" class at Ernst & Young.
Prior
to joining Foundstone, Gary held positions of Manager in the
Security Profiling Services Group of Ernst & Young and
Senior Consultant in Price Waterhouse's Enterprise Security
Solutions practice. Gary developed methodologies for network
security at both companies.
Gary
performs speaking engagements at various industry conferences,
several of which include:
Illinois
CPA Society "Practical Roadblocks to Secure E-Commerce",
8/01 Information
Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Conference "Securing
UNIX Systems" ISSA Conference "Performing Penetration
Tests" Security.Net 99, Toronto CA, 9/99 Co-Keynote Speaker
Illinois CPA Society, "Who's Knocking On Your Door?"
8/00 Army Reserve Information Assurance Seminar "Drive
By Shootings"
SenSecurity Conference "Hacker Methodology" 3/02
Singapore Hack2002 Security Conference "Footprint Analysis"
3/02 Melbourne Hack2002 Security Conference "Hacker Methodology"
3/02 Sydney
Gary
has written several articles for industry publications including:
SysAdmin
Magazine: "Security Diagnostic Review of Solaris 2.x"
SysAdmin Magazine: "Securing Your Web Server"
SysAdmin Magazine: "Freeware Web Security Scanners"
SysAdmin Magazine: "Freeware Security Scanner"
Login Magazine "Network Policy Enforcement"
Information Security Magazine "Apache Security"
Information Security Magazine "Personal Firewalls
Under Fire"Devx.Com "Black Hat Briefings 2001: Enabling
Better Security or Better Hackers?"
Gary's
first book, "Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online"
http://www.privacydefended.com
is now available through Que Publishing. Gary holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in Information Systems / Finance from New
York University and is a Certified Information Systems Security
Professional (CISSP). Gary can be reached at gary@privacydefended.com
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