Jay Beale has created several security tools, including Bastille Linux/UNIX and the CIS Linux Scoring Tool, both of which have been used throughout industry and government. He has served as an invited speaker, program chair and trainer at many industry and government conferences, a columnist for Information Security Magazine, SecurityPortal and SecurityFocus, and a contributor to nine books, including those in his Open Source Security Series and the ""Stealing the Network"" series. Jay is a founder and the CTO of the information security consulting company InGuardians, where way too many clients' staff have enthusiastically given him their passwords.