George Kurtz is a Senior Manager in the Information Security Services practice of Ernst & Young and serves as the Attack and Penetration leader within the Profiling service line. Mr. Kurtz has performed dozens of firewall, network, and Web server penetration studies / security reviews throughout his security consulting career. Mr. Kurtz has experience with designing firewall architectures and in evaluating various platforms and technologies from an audit, control, and data security perspective including: firewalls, routers, web servers, intrusion detection systems, and various Unix and NT operating systems. Mr. Kurtz has spoken at numerous industry events, and has been quoted by: the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, Communications Week, InfoWorld, PC Week, Bergen Record, C|net On-line, and Accounting Today. He has also published several works including The art of Attack and Penetration, Sys Admin (March and April 1999) & Diary of a Tiger Team, Information Security News (1995), and featured in a chapter of Corporate Espionage by Ira Winkler.