Ric Messier, CEH, CISSP, is an IT security professional with decades of experience working with service provider and enterprise networks. Ric has been a contributor to Hakin9 and PenTest Magazines and has spoken at Interop, New York. Ric currently teaches networking and security courses to graduate students at Brandeis University and to undergraduates at Champlain College. He has also developed two video training titles on ethical hacking and computer forensics.