Dave Dittrich is a Senior Security Engineer at the University of Washington (supporting Unix workstation administrators on campus since 1990). He is also a member of the Honeynet Project and Seattle's "Agora" security group.

Dave is most widely known for his research into Distributed Denial of Service attack tools, starting with 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 and NANOG, and recieved one of SANS' Security Technology Leadership Awards in 2000 for his work in understanding DDoS tools. Dave has also spoken and/or taught courses at CanSecWest CORE '01 and '02, OlymFair in Seoul, South Korea, and HAL 2001 in the Netherlands, and to groups at NSA, CIA, JTF-CNO, FBI Academy and the Pentagon. In the area of 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.

In his "spare" time, Dave enjoys photography (a side business), mountain biking, rock climbing, and ski mountaineering the volcanoes and Cascade mountain range in the Pacific Northwest.

His home page can be found at http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/