Efstratios L. Gavas is an Assistant Professor at the United Stated Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY where he has been building the cyber defense program for the last four years. He screens prospective students by dropping them off in Manhattan with an Eee PC, a BackTrack distro, and a swiss army knife to see who makes it back to campus alive. He is also concurrently working on his Ph.D at Polytechnic Institute of New York University where he has researched: hardware trojan detection, hardware control-flow obfuscation, RFID security, privacy and anonymity, computer forensics and is aggravating his advisor because he can't settle on a topic. He is a National Science Foundation Federal Cyber Scholarship Recipient. One day he hopes to sail around the world, or build a autonomous boat to do it for him