Techno Security's Guide to Managing Risks for IT Managers, Auditors, and Investigators

by Greg Kipper
Greg Kipper (CISSP) is a Senior Security Engineer with Tenacity Solutions Incorporated. Tenacity is a woman-owned, small business that is headquartered in Reston, VA, that specializes in information security and information assurance. Greg has been involved in the field of security and information assurance over the past 13 years. Through his experiences in the security sector as a systems engineer, security analyst, and consultant, he moved into the emerging field of digital forensics. The last seven years of his career have been spent on working on forensic investigations studying the future of technologies and their forensic impact of that data to the process of evidence. Some of his notable works include the books Investigator s Guide to Steganography , Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation , and the upcoming Proactive Forensics as well as a Congressional report outlining technical methods of reducing the risk of Insider Threat. Greg continues to actively contribute to the fields of security and digital forensics giving lectures annually at DoD Cybercrime, TechnoSecurity, and TechnoForensics.
[Syngress Publishing, along with Greg Kipper, would like to thank Auerbach Publications for letting us use a portion of Greg s book, Investigator s Guide to Steganography , as a starting point for this chapter.]
When I was approached to contribute a chapter to this book, I was excited to have the chance to revisit steganography again since finishing my first book Investigator s Guide to Steganography in 2002. This chapter will follow much the same model as...