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Paco Hope is a Consultant with Cigital. His areas of expertise include PKI, cryptography, LAN networking and host security. Before joining Cigital, he served as director of product development for Charlottesville, VA-based Tovaris, Inc. and head systems administrator in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Paco has published articles on X.509 revocation and Unix host security features.

Yanek Korff graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and is currently a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Mr. Korff joined Bell Atlantic as a Systems Engineer where he played a major role in the strategy, design, and deployment of a key Northern Virginia test facility. He later joined Cigital, Inc., a software quality management company, where he played a crucial role in the design of their systems infrastructure. He is now an essential member of the Information Security division at America Online. During his career, Mr. Korff has been able to identify and mitigate information security risks particularily relating to host-based BSD security. By leveraging his experience, he has been able to apply security fundamentals to influence business and industry practices.

Bruce Potter is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. Prior to working at Booz Allen Hamilton, Bruce served as a software security consultant for Cigital in Dulles, VA. Bruce is the founder of the Shmoo Group of security professionals. His areas of expertise include wireless security, large-scale network architectures, smartcards, and promotion of secure software engineering practices. Bruce coauthored the books 802.11 Security and Mac OS X Security. He was trained in computer science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.