Kenneth R. van Wyk
Principal Consultant and Founder
Ken has previously held executive and senior information security technologist roles at Tekmark's Technology Risk Management practice, Para-Protect Services, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Ken was also the Operations Chief for the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency's DoD-wide incident response team, as well as a founding employee of the CERT® Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute.
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Ken is an internationally recognized information security expert and author of three popular books, including Enterprise Security: A Confluence of Disciplines (Pearson, 2014), Secure Coding: Principles and Practices (O’Reilly, 2003), and Incident Response (O’Reilly, 2001). He is also a monthly columnist for Computerworld. Among his numerous professional roles, Ken is a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a course instructor and consultant to the CERT® Coordination Center. Ken is also on the faculty at IANS, the Institute for Applied Network Security.
Ken is also on the Board of Directors for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a non-profit professional organization supporting the incident response ommunity. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Lehigh University and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including S3, CSI, ISF, and others FIRST.