Martin Nystrom is a manager for the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) global engineering team at Cisco Systems. His team develops creative solutions for detecting and investigating security incidents across Cisco's corporate network, hosted solutions, and new ventures. As part of his role, Martin provides guidance for incident response and security initiatives, both to Cisco staff and executive customers. Prior to joining Cisco's CSIRT, he was responsible for designing and consulting on secure architectures for IT projects. Martin started his career as an IT architect and a Java programmer, where he built his experience in the pharmaceutical and computer industries. He received a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University, a master's degree from NC State University, and maintains a CISSP certification since 2004. He is the author of O'Reilly's SQL Injection Defenses, and co-author of Security Monitoring. He is a frequent conference speaker, and was honored on the Java One Rock Star Wall of Fame. He enjoys speaking at FIRST and Cisco Live (formerly Cisco Networkers) conferences. Most of Martin's papers and presos can be found on his web site at xianshield.org