Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank and acknowledge everyone who made this book possible: My first and deepest thanks is to my wife, whose patience, support, and feedback made this book possible in the first place. Ed Skoudis for connecting me with Addison-Wesley and for brainstorming the book title with me in San Diego. Thank you to Becky Bace, a dear friend and trusted colleague, Alan Paller, Howard Schmidt, Stephen Northcutt, Richard Salgado, Lenny Zeltser, Slava Frid, Randy Sabbet, Daniel Jackson, and the numerous contributors to the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. Special thanks must go to Nick Bleech whose frank and candid comments and the tremendous amount of time he invested in reviewing the manuscript helped me immensely. ...