Stuart McClure, CISSP, CNE, CCSE,

was founder, president, and CTO of Foundstone, and ran the worldwide AVERT team at McAfee.

Joel Scambray, CISSP, is chief strategy officer for Leviathan Security Group and was a senior director at Microsoft Corporation focusing on security.

George Kurtz, CISSP, former CEO of Foundstone, is senior vice president and general manager of McAfee's Risk & Compliance Business Unit. All three are the coauthors of the previous editions of Hacking Exposed.