“It is better to impersonate a fictional employee rather than an actual one, as that lowers the chance of tarnishing someone’s reputation.” Ed Skoudis – Fellow at SANS Institute
Source: CSO Online
About Ed Skoudis:
Ed is the founder of the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum and Counter Hack; leads the team that builds NetWars, Holiday Hack, and CyberCity; and serves as President of SANS Technology Institute. A consummate presenter, Ed is a keynote speaker appearing internationally at conferences, and is an Advisory Board member for RSA.
Ed began teaching for SANS Institute in 1999. He earned an M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and had already become a trusted security consultant with many accolades.
He was the expert called in by the White House to test security viability of the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) that now protects US Government networks, and he led the team that first publicly demonstrated significant security flaws in virtual machine technology.
With his vast foundational knowledge of attacker behavior and techniques, and his work creating hacker challenges in the nascent stages of Counter Hack, Ed founded the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum in 2008.
In 2010, Ed and his team at Counter Hack built NetWars, the widely used cyber training and skills assessment ranges relied upon by military units and corporations with major assets at risk.
Now there are more than 5 versions of NetWars available in various modalities, including Core, DFIR, Cyber Defense, ICS, and CyberCity, not to mention Counter Hack’s wildly popular Holiday Hack Challenge, featuring the KringleCon virtual conference.
In 2015, Ed was awarded the Order of Thor Medal by the Military Cyber Professionals Association for his contributions in preparing the next generation of Cyber Warriors in large part because of these ranges.
Today, Ed continues to mentor the SANS author team in making realistic labs and ranges so that people can learn safely.
