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Rik Farrow

Location: Sedona, Arizona
Phone: 928-282-0242
Email: rik@spirit.com
Website: http://www.spirit.com/
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: Fees + Travel
Compensation required: $2500 per day
Other payment info: Business class airfare for overseas travel

Bio:
Rik Farrow provides UNIX and Internet security consulting and training. He has been working with UNIX system security since 1984, and with TCP/IP networks since 1988. He has taught for the IRS, Department of Justice, NSA, US West, Canadian RCMP, Swedish Navy, and for many U.S. and European user groups. Farrow also consults with firms in the design and implementation of security applications. He also teaches a course in NT security for UNIX sysadmins.

He is the author of UNIX System Security, published by Addison-Wesley in 1991, and System Administrator's Guide to System V (Prentice Hall, 1989, with Rebecca Thomas). Farrow writes a column for ;login:, the magazine of the USENIX Association, and a network security column for Network magazine. His article on the technical details of the Internet worm won an Excellance in Technology Communications award.

Rik lives with his wife in the high desert of Northern Arizona.

Posted: Sep 29, 2006 08:37:41 AM; Last change: Sep 29, 2006 08:52:52 AM

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