ABOUT DEER RUN Deer Run Associates provides top-notch Information Technology and Security consulting services to select clients across the United States, and throughout the world. Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run's founder and technical lead, is a recognized leader and a respected author and instructor in the fields of Systems Management and Information Security. Deer Run Associates was founded in 1997. Customers Here is a partial list of current and past clients: Customers @Home Network BART Center For Internet Security Cisco Systems Clemson University eBay Lane Educational Services District Microsoft National Weather Service New Horizons PNC Stanford University Tablus Talks/Tutorials SANS USENIX MIS Training Institute BayLISA BBLISA Virginia Tech Saudi Computer Society Our Team Hal Pomeranz Hal Pomeranz is the founder and technical lead of Deer Run Associates, and has been active in the system and network management/security field for over fifteen years. As a member of the Faculty for the SANS Institute, Hal developed the SANS "Step-by-Step" course model and currently serves as the track coordinator and primary instructor for the SANS/GIAC Unix Security Certification track (GCUX). Hal is also the technical lead in developing the Unix Security Benchmark documents for the Center for Internet Security. In addition, Hal is currently the Technical Editor for Sys Admin magazine. In 2001 he was given the SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award for his teaching and leadership in the field of System Administration. Prior to founding Deer Run Associates, Hal has held Network and Systems Management positions at some of the largest commercial (AT&T Bell Labs, TRW Information Systems, Cendant Corp), government (NASA Ames Research Center), and educational (University of Pennsylvania) institutions in the country. Hal has been a member of the Board of Directors for the USENIX Association, BayLISA, and BBLISA. He has written or co-written dozens of technical articles and several books, including Solaris Security: Step-by-Step, the de facto standard guide for "hardening" the Solaris Operating System, and SANS Security Essentials. Laura LeHew Laura LeHew is the president and CFO of Deer Run Associates, and has been active in the high tech industry for over twenty years. She is currently a member of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and has previously served on the Board of Directors for several professional organizations. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Denali, PMS, Tiger's Eye, Not Just Air, Pemmican Press, Carnelian, Pearl MagazineThe Register Guard, Elysian Fields Quarterly, The Rattlesnake Review, The San Francisco Reader and The Peralta Press. She received a writing residency from Soapstone in 2006. "Doing the AWP" received the new poet's prize from Oregon State Poetry Association in 2005. Laura interned for CALYX, an independent publisher of literature and art by women. She is currently a member of the Lane Literary Guild's steering committee, the Eugene/Springfield chapter of the Oregon State Poetry Association, and is co-founder of Uttered Chaos, which organizes readings in the Eugene area. Laura runs two critique groups, a book group, and is webmaster for numerous writers and literary organizations. Prior to Deer Run Associates, Laura has held a variety of positions for companies in the Bay Area such as Ascend Communications, Esker Inc., Netopia (formerly Farallon Computing), and Sybase. Additionally, she was a principal at Plus Five Computer Services. Laura holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from Holy Names College. She also holds a Certificate of Human Resources Management from the University of California, Berkeley.