Assessing Vendors

Acknowledgments

This book evolved out of a presentation made at DerbyCon, so I would like to first thank the unnamed voting board of DerbyCon 2 for choosing a wacky joke talk about pens.

I would like to thank Kevin Riggins, my technical editor on this book. As this process applies very differently to small business and large enterprises, his input was extremely valuable.

I would also like to thank Anthony J. Stieber for contributing the page on assessing Cryptography. This topic alone could make its own book, so I greatly appreciate the work it took to condense it to a single page.

I would like to thank the SANS Community for being willing to review a beta version of this book, so I could address glaring holes and clarify areas of uncertainty. ...