Winn Schwartau

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Winn Schwartau
Born	July 1st, 1952 New York City
Occupation	Computer Security Expert
Website Schwartau's personal website

Winn Schwartau is one of the world's top experts on security, privacy, infowar, cyber-terrorism and related topics . He is known not only for his trademark mustache and appearances at Defcon but also his provocative and original ideas that make audiences think, wonder and understand highly technical security subjects. He has written more than a dozen works on security topics. In other words, Schwartau attempts to make the importance of information security accessible to the average person. In 2002, he was honored as a “Power Thinker” and one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network World. In 2008, he was voted one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry by Security Magazine.

Contents 1 Written work 2 Entrepreneurial career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Written work

Schwartau has written numerous books. His first non-fiction book, '"Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway (1994, 1996, 1997)' introduces the concepts of cyberterrorism to the public. Another of his books, "Cybershock" (2000, 2001), is a non-technical look at the Defcon conference, hackers in general, Phreaking and the importance of computer security. It is over 500 pages in length.

Schwartau is the author of “Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids (and Parents and Teachers Without a Clue)” (2001/2002). Dr. Fred Cohen, from all.net, described this book as “The best security book ever written.”^[1].

[edit] Entrepreneurial career

Schwartau is the president and founder of The Security Awareness Company (formerly known as Interpact, Inc.). This company develops security awareness programs for private and public organisations. Founded: InfowarCon (1994) ww.InfowarCon.Com, Trusted Learning (2003) www.TrustedLearning.Com, co-founder SCIPP International (2007) www.SCIPPInternational.Org.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Biography at archive.org
• Biography at Schwartaus's web site
• Works by Winn Schwartau at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Winn Schwartau in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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