Russ McRee, ASS, is a security analyst / researcher. As an advocate for a holistic approach to the practice of information assurance, Russ maintains holisticinfosec.org, where he conducts constant vulnerability and malware research. A frequent speaker at industry events, including FIRST and RAID , Russ also writes toolsmith, a monthly column for the ISSA Journal, and has written for numerous other publications including Information Security, (IN)SECURE, SysAdmin, and OWASP. Russ is listed as the 8th ranked vulnerability discoverer of 2008 by IBM ISS and 11th over-all by OSVDB.