Scott Barman is currently an information security and systems architecture analyst for The MITRE Corporation working with the MITRE team to help the IRS modernize their IT infrastructure. He has been involved with information security for almost 20 years, nurturing the evolution of systems and their security requirements for commercial organizations and government agencies. Since the explosion of the Internet, and prior to joining MITRE, he has focused on various areas of security and policy development for many organizations in the Washington, D.C. area. The inspiration for this book came from his SANS '99 presentation on this topic.

Scott earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and a Master of Information Systems Management with a concentration in Information Security Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Scott is also a contributor to the CISSP Training Guide (ISBN 078972801X), published by Que Certification on November 19, 2002. Click here to read the chapter Scott contributed on-line.