The LiveSecurity Writers are available to speak at your network security-related event. Each is a noted security professional with many years of experience in explaining technical concepts with clear, compelling language that audiences love. To schedule a WatchGuard expert for your event, email rita.moren@watchguard.com.

Topics of Expertise:

• Malware trends
• Battling botnets
• Training non-technical users on security
• Firewalls, UTM, and XTM

About WatchGuard's LiveSecurity® Writers

Steve Fallin, Director of the Rapid Response Team

Steve Fallin, Director of the Rapid Response Team, has been with WatchGuard since 1998. One of the original architects of WatchGuard's popular LiveSecurity Service, Steve has spent the last seven years researching, writing, and speaking about network security for the small- to medium-size enterprise. Steve's involvement with Internet technologies predates the World Wide Web. Much of that time has been spent figuring out how to break things or keep them from being broken, due to Steve's work experience as a penetration tester and firewall expert for government clients in Washington, DC. Steve believes that when it comes to network security, one size fits nobody.

Corey Nachreiner, Senior Network Security Analyst

Corey Nachreiner, Senior Network Security Analyst for WatchGuard's LiveSecurity Service, has been with WatchGuard since 1999. Corey began his tenure in WatchGuard's Technical Support organization, where he quickly advanced. He created a new role in the organization, working between Support and Engineering to solve critical issues. Later recruited onto the LiveSecurity team, Corey has since written more than a thousand concise security alerts and easily-understood educational articles for WatchGuard users. His security training videos have generated hundreds of letters of praise from thankful customers and accumulated more than 100,000 views on YouTube and Google Video. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Corey speaks internationally and is often quoted by other online sources, including C|NET, eWeek, and Slashdot. Before WatchGuard, Corey attended Western Washington University in pursuit of a Computer Science degree and Creative Writing minor. During that time he also ran his own small computer consulting business and explored WWU's network. In his free time, Corey enjoys "modding" any technical gizmo he can get his hands on, and considers himself a hacker in the old sense of the word.

Scott Pinzon, Information Security Analyst

Scott Pinzon, Information Security Analyst for WatchGuard's LiveSecurity Service, joined WatchGuard in 2000. Since then he has edited, written, and/or published well over 1,500 security alerts and "best practices" articles to LiveSecurity subscribers, who have more than doubled in number during his tenure. Scott, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), has nearly 20 years of experience writing about high-tech products for clients both large (Weyerhaeuser IT) and small (Seattle's first cash machine network). He has worked in the fields of security, encryption products, e-commerce, and voice messaging, and loves translating technical concepts into down-to-earth, "blue jeans" language. He founded and hosts the popular podcast, Radio Free Security. The security training videos he co-writes and directs in collaboration with Corey Nachreiner have accumulated more than 100,000 views on YouTube and Google Video, and are used to train the IT staffs of numerous corporate and government organizations. Scott has been involved in more than 50 book projects, most recently as the technical editor for Johnny Long's No-Tech Hacking and the story editor for Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow, both from Syngress. Scott regards as a career high turning down the publisher who asked him to ghost-write books for Mr. T.