Bill Cheswick

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Co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security in 1994, one of the first books on the subject, written from running AT&T's internet gateway - and the author of the account of watching an intruder inside a deliberately prepared environment.

An Evening with Berferd is the piece people remember, and it is where the honeypot argument enters the literature: rather than eject the intruder, he watched, recorded and learned what the attacker was actually trying. The book's most durable line is a warning against its own subject, and the authors made it themselves - in many of the access arrangements they studied, the only secure component was the firewall, which attackers simply went around to reach the machines it was said to protect.

Also known as: cheswick, ches, berferd

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