The Security Catalyst

Please join me in welcoming Joe Knape as a contributor to the catalyst community. I have known Joe for 6 years now, and during that time have learned much and enjoyed many conversations with him. And now you’ll have the benefit of reading (and sometimes hearing) his ideas.

About Joe Knape
Joe has been providing information security expertise to clients ranging from sole proprietors to Fortune 500 companies for over 15 years. A long-standing industry veteran, he directs his clients toward a safer computing environment by helping them leverage their existing infrastructure and marrying it to the people, processes, and technologies that are most appropriate for them, based on their goals, objectives, and requirements. Mr Knape’s drive to use existing assets more efficiently and to “do more with less” allows his clients to reduce risk and minimize their threat profile regardless of group size, budget restrictions, or other constraints.

Mr. Knape’s professional background includes information security planning and policy development, managing security assessment and penetration teams, software development and reverse-engineering.

He is a contributing author to Firewalls: The Complete Reference, and has provided pre-publication review for a number of security and technology books, including Security Architecture: Design, Deployment and Operations and Tim Maher’s Minimal Perl. Mr. Knape participated in the development of the Certified Wireless Security Professional certification and is designated as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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