Jim Clausing

Jim Clausing caught his first attacker in 1981 when he discovered a Trojan login program had been planted on a terminal on his college's computer. "Yes, we had only one computer for the entire college," he recalls. Ever since Jim has been working to secure systems and track down attackers. Today, Jim has over 40 years of experience in the IT field including systems and database administration, and security and research in parallel processing and distributed systems. He's spent the past 20 years as a technical consultant and network security architect for AT&T doing malware analysis, forensics, incident response, intrusion detection, system hardening, and botnet tracking.

Jim serves on the GIAC board of directors, and as a volunteer incident handler at the SANS Internet Storm Center. He co-authored the SANS Press book, Securing Solaris 8 & 9 Using the Center for Internet Security Benchmark, and holds the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification (#26).