Keynote - Open Source Security Lessons

Wietse Venema 2006

Wietse Venema discusses lessons learned from the software that he released over the years. This includes how the software came into being, the widely varying publicity that his work received, and the impact his work had on open source and security.

About Wietse Venema

Wietse Venema is known for his software such as the TCP Wrapper and the POSTFIX mail system. With Dan Farmer he co-authored the SATAN network scanner, the Coroner\'s Toolkit for forensic analysis, as well as a book on forensic discovery. Wietse received awards from the System Administrator\'s Guild (SAGE) and from the Netherlands UNIX User Group (NLUUG). He completed his two-year term as the chair of the international Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). Wietse has a Ph.D. in physics and is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson research center in the USA.