Mr. Graham learned hacking as a toddler from his grandfather, a WW-II codebreaker. His first IDS was written more than 10 years ago designed to catch Morris-worm copycats. He is the author of several pending patents in the IDS field. He is the author of well-regarded security-related documents http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs and is a frequent speaker at conferences. Prior to founding Errata Security he co-founded, was the CTO, and chief-architect at Network ICE (now owned by ISS-IBM)