With the recently released 4th edition of Hacking Exposed this book continues to be a staple of the information security book industry. Ranked 4th in all-time computer book sales and translated into 19 different languages the Hacking Exposed book is considered by many to be a "must read" book for anyone involved in information security.
Over the past few years the popularity of the core Hacking Exposed book has spawned platform or application specific offshoots such as Hacking Windows 2000 Exposed, Hacking Web Applications Exposed, Hacking Windows Server 2003 Exposed and Hacking Linux Exposed to name a few.
Prior to setting out to form their company- Foundstone- Mr.Kurtz and Mr. McClure worked together at Ernst & Young as a part of the Security Profiling Services Group. The two saw a need for a different sort of security firm and more education in information security so they formed Foundstone.
Foundstone offers unique proprietary software, service and education aimed at helping customers mitigate and manage information security risks. Foundstone also offers a number of valuable free tools to help you assess and secure your own networks.
The chat session went very well and we look forward to doing similar chats with other information security industry experts and authors. To read the complete transcript of the chat session click here: Hacking Exposed Chat Session Transcript
