About the Reviewers

Ritwik Ghoshal is a senior security analyst at Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for Oracle's software and hardware security assurance. His primary work areas are operating systems and desktop virtualization along with developing vulnerability management and tracking tools. Before joining Oracle in 2010, when the company acquired Sun Microsystems, he had been working with Sun since 2008 as part of Sun's Security Engineering team and Solaris team. At Oracle, he continues to be responsible for all Sun systems' products and Oracle's Linux and virtualization products.

He earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2008 from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.

I'm heavily indebted to my parents and Sara E Taverner for their continuous help and support.

Vishrut Mehta is currently in the fourth year at IIIT Hyderabad. He is doing his research in cloud computing and software-defined networks under the guidance of Dr. Vasudeva Varma and Dr. Reddy Raja. He has done a research internship at INRIA, France, in which he had to work on various challenges in multicloud systems. He also loves open source and has participated in Google Summer of Code 2013 while working on a project for Sahana Software Foundation. He was also involved in various start-ups and worked on some of the leading technologies.

He was the technical reviewer of Python Network Programming Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Vasudeva Varma and Dr. Reddy Raja for guiding me and helping me in times of need.

Gilbert Ramirez develops software to help other programmers and developers get their job done. He has been a long-time contributor to Wireshark, the premier open source packet analyzer. At Cisco Systems, Inc., he is responsible for software build systems, workflow automation for engineers, and virtualization tools.

He has reviewed Network Analysis Using Wireshark Cookbook, Packt Publishing. He has also written books on Wireshark, including Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit; Nessus, Snort, & Ethereal Power Tools; and Ethereal Packet Sniffing, all published by Syngress Publishing, Inc,.

Abhinav Singh is a young information security specialist from India. He has keen interest in the field of Information Security and has adopted it as his full-time profession. His core work areas include malware analysis, network security, and systems and enterprise security. He is also the author of Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Second Edition and Instant Wireshark, published by Packt Publishing.

Abhinav's work has been quoted in several InfoSec magazines and portals. He shares his day-to-day security encounters at www.securitycalculus.com.

Currently, he is working as a cybersecurity engineer for J.P. Morgan. You can follow him on Twitter at @abhinavbom. You can also contact him at <abhinavbom@gmail.com>.

Tom Stephens is passionate about software. He has worked on everything from web design to low-level systems engineering to quality management. His broad experience and adaptability has helped him gain a keen insight into software and technology as a whole.