Martin Roesch is a respected authority on intrusion detection technology and forensics, and today works at Sourcefire where he is the founder and CTO. Martin, who has 14 years industry experience in network security and embedded systems engineering, is also the author and lead developer of the Snort Intrusion Detection System (www.snort.org).

Over the past eight years, Martin has developed various network security tools and technologies, including intrusion detection systems, honeypots, network scanners, and policy enforcement systems for organizations such as GTE Internetworking, Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., and the Department of Defense. He has applied his knowledge of network security to penetration testing and network forensics for numerous government and large corporate customers. Martin has been interviewed as an industry expert in multiple technology publications, as well as print and online news services such as MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, CNET, ZDNet, and numerous books. Snort has been featured in Scientific American, on A&E's Secret Places: Inside the FBI, and in several books, such as Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts Handbook, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Maximum Security, Hacking Exposed, and others.

Martin holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.

AusCERT2004 Presentations:

Passive Network Discovery Systems & Asset-centric Security
Day One: Monday, 24th May 2004, 1150 - 1230 (Technical Stream)

Who are we kidding? Too many vulnerability disclosures are bad for security.
Day Two: Tuesday, 25th May 2004, 0955 - 1045 (Debate)

Working with Snort
Day Four: Thursday, 27th May 2004, 0900 - 1230 (Tutorial 5)