Michael A. Davis
Chief Executive Officer

Michael A. Davis is CEO of Savid Technologies, Inc. a technology and security consulting firm in Chicago. He is also a deployer of intrusion detection systems, with contributions to the Snort Intrusion Detection System.

Michael is also a member of the Honeynet project where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for windows based honeynets.

Michael has worked with McAfee, Inc. a leader in anti-virus protection and vulnerability management, as Senior Manager of Global Threats where he lead a team of researchers investigating confidential and cutting edge security research.

Michael has also worked for companies such as 3com and managed two Internet Service Providers.

Lastly, Michael is an active developer in the Open Source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform including snort and honeyd. Currently, Michael is a contributing author to Hacking Exposed, the number one book on hacker methodology.

Accomplishments:

• Author of “Hacking Exposed”, the definitive Computer Security book
• Speaker and trainer at many security conferences including: Defcon, HITB, NSA/NIC Honeynet Security Conference, and FINSEC
• Taught a Secure Programming course at Moraine Valley Community College
• Porting Sebek, the HoneyNet kernel monitoring tool, to Windows NT/2000/XP
• Ported the Snort Intrusion Detection System to Windows NT/2000/XP
• Architected, Developed and deployed a secure 802.11 Wireless network covering Northern Illinois and parts of southern Texas
• Ported dsniff, and ngrep to Windows NT/2000/XP
• Developed kernel level network device drivers for Windows.