My name is David Dorgan, I am currently a network engineer by day and I am also the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) at Xevion Networks. I also do technical reviews for mcgraw-hill, currently I am working on "Unix made Easy, edition 3."

Previous to this I have been the senior system administrator for an Irish hosting company and a security administrator at a large ISP

Contact:

d<at>xevion<dot>net

Interests:

• Trusted Operating Systems.
• Distributed Operating Systems.
• General host and network based security. (Too wide a subject to go into specifics).
• Bottleneck identification in Unix operating systems.
• Signature based IDS systems.
• An interest in cryptography when time permits 😉
• Setting up unix based commercial servers with good backup cost effectivly.

Papers and Articles:

Generic CHROOT’ing of services. {see /papers.html}

I troll around on

• ILUG
• OpenBSD misc
• Netbsd Kernel
• NetBSD Security
• NetBSD Net
• FreeBSD ISP
• FreeBSD Security
• Vuln-Dev
• Focus IDS
• Bugtraq
• NT-Bugtraq
• Debian Security
• Debian Mentors
• Nessus Devel

Of course after a weekend a ^D fixes most thread issues…