About the Authors

Christopher Steel, CISSP, ISSAP, is the President and CEO of FortMoon Consulting and was recently the chief architect on the U.S. Treasury’s Pay.gov project. He has more than fifteen years experience in distributed enterprise computing with a strong focus on application security, patterns, and methodologies. Some of his clients include the U.S. Navy, Raytheon, Fleet, CVS Pharmacy, Nextel, Verizon, AOL, KPMG, MCI, and GTE. He presents regularly at local and industry conferences on topics of security.

Ramesh Nagappan is a Java Technology Architect at Sun Microsystems. With extensive industry experience, he specializes in Java distributed computing and Security architectures for mission-critical applications. Prior to this work, ...

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