Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all of the students who have gone through my class over the years and provided suggestions on how to improve the course. I am especially grateful to the 2015 class and the Towson University 2015 Collegiate Cyber Defense team who have provided feedback on various drafts of these notes.

Let me thank Jesse Varsalone for his time and effort as technical reviewer, as well as the three anonymous amigos who provided valuable assistance looking over the first few chapters of the book.

I would also like to thank the members of the Apress team, including Rita Fernando and Robert Hutchinson who have provided wonderful assistance over the year it has taken to write this book.

I can’t thank my family enough for giving me the time and the support to write this.