Dave Aitel

Dave Aitel at Infiltrate 2012

Dave Aitel is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years.^[1][2] In 2002 he founded a software security company, Immunity, where he is now the CTO.^[3]

Aitel co-authored several books:

• The Hacker's Handbook: The Strategy Behind Breaking into and Defending Networks. ISBN 978-0-8493-0888-8
• The Shellcoder's Handbook. ISBN 978-0-7645-4468-2
• Beginning Python. ISBN 978-0-7645-9654-4

He is also well known for writing several security tools:

• SPIKE, a block-based fuzzer
• SPIKE Proxy, a man-in-the-middle web application assessment tool
• Unmask, a tool to do statistical analysis on text to determine authorship

Dave Aitel is an infrequent guest on the Fox News Channel where he provides commentary on information security news. ^[4]

References

1. Canvassing all security cracks. Retrieved on April 16, 2008.
2. Aitel, Dave. 0days: How hacking really works. Retrieved on July 8, 2007.
3. Immunity company information. Retrieved on July 8, 2007.
4. Aitel, Dave. "Cyber security: National security vs. personal freedom". Fox News. Retrieved 21 August 2012.