Stephen Northcutt was the developer of the Shadow intrusion Detection system and the original leader of the Department of Defense's Shadow Intrusion Defection team before accepting the position of Chief of Information Warfare et the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. He currently serves as Director of Training and Certification for the SANS Institute.
Judy Novak is currently a senior security analyst with Jacob and Sundstrom, Inc., working primarly et the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on intrusion defection, traffic monitoring, and information operations research. One of the founding members of the Army Research Labs Computer Incident Response team, she has contributed to the development of SANS courses in TCP/IP and "Network Traffic Analysis Using TCPdump" ; both courses are used in SANS certification tracks.