About the Technical Editor

Curtis W. Rose is the President and founder of Curtis W. Rose & Associates LLC, a specialized services company in Columbia, Maryland, which provides computer forensics, expert testimony, litigation support, and computer intrusion response and training to commercial and government clients. Mr. Rose is an industry-recognized expert with over 20 years of experience in investigations, computer forensics, and technical and information security.

Mr. Rose was a co-author of Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response, and was a contributing author or technical editor for many popular information security books including Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation; Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code; SQL Server Forensic Analysis; Anti-Hacker Toolkit, 1^st Edition; Network Security: The Complete Reference; and Incident Response and Computer Forensics, 2^nd Edition. He has also published whitepapers on advanced forensic methods and techniques including “Windows Live Response Volatile Data Collection: Non-Disruptive User and System Memory Forensic Acquisition” and “Forensic Data Acquisition and Processing Utilizing the Linux Operating System.”