Many years ago, I also supported World Wide Web services including the initial prototype and subsequent support of UW's original (now retired) Weber web service (and proud father of the Weber Guy).
I taught the R870: Unix System Administration - A Survival Course Education & Training course for about 10 years, and in Autumn 2003 co-taught the initial offering of INFO 498AA special topics course on Computer Security Incident Response. I continue to guest lecture for this and other Computer Security and Forensics courses.
I am also an active member and officer of the Honeynet Project and member of Seattle's "Agora" computer security group.
The following bios are usable for conference organizers, etc.
Dave Dittrich is a Senior Security Engineer and Researcher at the Information School at the University of Washington. He is also a member of the Honeynet Project and member of Seattle's "Agora" security group. Dave is most widely known for his research into Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack tools and host & network forensics. He has presented talks and courses at dozens of computer security conferences, workshops, and government/private organizations world wide, contributed articles and chapters to several magazines and books, and co-authored the first complete book on DDoS, titled "Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms." His home page can be found at http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/
Dave Dittrich is a Senior Security Engineer and Researcher in the Information School (iSchool) at the University of Washington. He has worked at the University of Washington since 1990. He is also a member and Officer of the Honeynet Project and member of Seattle's "Agora" computer security group. Dave is perhaps most widely known for his research into Distributed Denial of Service attack tools, starting with the first public analyses of DDoS and an invited talk at the November 1999 CERT Distributed System Intruder Tools Workshop and leading to talks at SANS, the USENIX Security Symposium, JASON summer workshop, DDoS BoF sessions at RSA 2000, NANOG, and SANS. Dave recieved one of SANS' Security Technology Leadership Awards in 2000 for his work in understanding DDoS tools, and was named by Information Security Magazine as one of the "Security Seven" for 2005 (representing the education sector.) Dave has authored chapters in the first edition of the Honeynet Project's "Know Your Enemy" and "The Hacker's Challenge", co-authored two articles with Kenneth Himma -- "Active Response to Computer Intrusions" and "Hackers, Crackers, and Computer Criminals" -- for the "Handbook on Information Security" (John Wiley and Sons, 2003) and co-authored the first complete book on DDoS, titled "Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms" (Mirkovic, Dietrich, Dittrich, and Ryher, Prentice Hall PTR, December, 2004.) In the area of Computer Forensics, Dave has taught Unix Forensic Analysis at the Black Hat Briefings, lead the Honeynet Project's popular Forensic Challenge, and both taught in and co-chaired SANS' first forensic track at SANS FIRE '01, and has guest lectured and collaborated on labs with faculty at several Universities and Community Colleges. Dave is one of the leading researchers into a topic he calls "the Active Response Continuum", which involves the legal, ethical, and technical frameworks for responding to large-scale computer attacks. He has presented on the topic at an I4 meeting; several Agora workshops in 2001 and 2003; a workshop at George Mason University in 2005; panels at SecureWorld Expo Seattle, Washington State Bar Association Cybercrime III conference, and American Bar Association summer meeting in 2004; a keynote address at the 2003 Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB) conference in Richmond, BC, Canada; and a talk at AusCERT 2005 in Brisbane, Australia. Dave has also spoken at CanSecWest in Vancouver, Canada, OlymFair in Seoul, South Korea, HAL 2001 in the Netherlands, AusCERT in Brisbane, Australia, and to groups at the NSA, CIA, DoD, and the FBI Academy. In his "spare" time, Dave enjoys photography (a side business), hiking, rock climbing, and ski mountaineering the volcanoes and Cascade mountain range in the Pacific Northwest. His massive home page can be found at http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/
