Ken is a veteran CSO with experience in IT spanning over twenty five year with companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Avaya, Identix, and Merrill Lynch. While at Microsoft Ken coauthored Microsoft's "Best Practices for Enterprise Security" whitepaper series, was a technical contributor for the MCSE Exam "Designing Security for Windows 2000" and official course curriculum for the same. In 1998 he founded "The NT Toolbox", where he oversaw all operations until its acquisition by GFI Software in 2002. Ken performed vulnerability analysis for 4 years for Windows and .Net Magazine's "Security Administrator" publication, was a Subject Matter Expert for CompTIA's Security+ certification, and participated on ISSA's International Privacy Advisory Board for GLBA. Ken is Coauthor of the books "Hack Proofing Your Network - 2nd Edition", "Stealing the Network - How to Own the Box", and a contributing author to  "Security Planning and Disaster Recovery" ,"Network Security - The Complete Reference" and "Network Security Assessment: From Vulnerability to Patch".