Ryan Russell, aka Blue Boar, has been employed in the IT field for nearly 20 years, specializing in information security for the last 10. He has contributed to over a dozen books on the topics of networking and security, both fiction and non-fiction. He founded the vuln-dev mailing list, was in charge of information security at Sybase for several years, and was a Senior Threat Analyst at SecurityFocus. Ryan is a frequent mailing list contributor, and conference speaker. His pet projects include robotics, embedded device hacking, disassembly, and HTPCs.