About the Authors
ALEX NOORDERGRAAF has over 10 years experience in the areas
of computer
and network security. As the Security Architect of the
Enterprise
Server Products (ESP) group at Sun Microsystems, he is
responsible for
providing technical leadership to define the security of
Sun's next
generation servers while addressing security for current
products. He
is the driving force behind the very popular freeware
Solaris Security
Toolkit. Prior to his role in ESP, he was a Senior Staff
Engineer in
the Enterprise Engineering (EE) group of Sun Microsystems,
where he
developed, documented, and published security best practices
through
the Sun BluePrints program. Published topics include: Sun
Fire Midframe
15K system security, secure N-tier environments, Solaris
Operating
Enviroment (Solaris OE) minimization, Solaris OE network
settings, and
Solaris OE security. He has co-authored two Sun BluePrint
books
Jumpstart Technology - Effective Use in the Solaris
Operating
Environment and Enterprise Security Solaris Operating
Environment
Glenn Brunette is a Sun Principal Engineer with over a
decade of
experience in information security. Glenn works in the Sun
Professional
Services division as the Americas Lead Security Architect.
In this
role, he is responsible for the development and execution of
the
region's security services strategy. He works with teams
throughout the
Americas and the world to improve the quality and security
of services
delivered to Sun's customers. Glenn is co-founder of the
Solaris
Security Toolkit software. Glenn works closely with teams
across Sun to
develop and deliver security strategy, methodologies, best
practices,
training, and tools. He is a Certified Information Systems
Security
Professional (CISSP) and has been trained in the National
Security
Agency's INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM).
