Blackhatonomics

Preface

When four loosely associated industry colleagues decided to come together as an author team to write a book, little did we realize how all our combined experience would amount to a hill of beans when it came to in-depth econometric analysis, or how drastically the world of information security would change during the time it took us to write and edit the book. The prophetically named “Project Mayhem” would evolve over time, eventually taking a life of its own, impacting the authors and those around us. We managed to write between overflowing workloads, amazing travel schedules, and disturbingly challenging changes in the information security world. Work and emails changed for more than one of us, and we all learned from each other as ...