Kenneth R. van Wyk is an internationally recognized information security expert and author of the O’Reilly and Associates books Incident Response and Secure Coding. In addition to providing consulting and training services through his company, KRvW Associates, LLC, he currently holds numerous positions—the Director of Cigital’s Research Labs, monthly columnist for online security portal eSecurityPlanet, and Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute.