About Us
Airscanner Corp. has assembled
the world's most formidable leaders in wireless
security. Our team members, consultants
and associates include renowned authors, professors,
programmers and former U.S. military officers.
If you have contributed groundbreaking research
to the field of wireless security, you are probably
involved with Airscanner Corp. at some level,
or soon will be. Multiple U.S. patents pending.
The following gives an overview
of the Airscanner corporate team members, partners
and associates, and awards & honors.
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Book Reviews
Senior
Management
Dr. Cyrus Peikari, President
and CEO
Dr. Cyrus Peikari finished his undergraduate training
with honors in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University
in 1991. For eight years Dr. Peikari taught advanced mathematics
at the SMU Learning Enhancement Center in Dallas, Tx. He has also
worked as a telecommunications software research and development engineer
for Alcatel. Dr. Peikari has several patents pending in the anti-virus
and mobile security fields. In addition, he has published several award
winning security software programs. He has co-authored five technical
books on information security, three of them as lead author. He
is also a frequent speaker at technical information security conferences.
His security books, articles and technical papers are read by more than
one million network administrators and programmers each year.
Seth Fogie, Vice President Research and Development
Seth Fogie is a former United States Navy Nuclear Engineer.
He is currently one of the most widely read technical information security
authors in the world. For example, his highly technical paper on
cracking the Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) algorithm was the single
most read technical article in the history of online publishing by Pearson
Education, receiving nearly 40,000 unique readers per week. In addition,
Mr. Fogie is co-author of an industry leading technical book on wireless
security and holds the industry recognized CWNA/CWSP. In his prior employment,
Mr. Fogie was most recently Director of Engineering at a commercial wireless
security company, where he was responsible for successfully developing
and marketing next-generation security software.
Ramona Rouhani, Chief Financial
Officer
Ramona Rouhani was graduated
Magna Cum Laude in Finance from Southern
Methodist University’s Cox School of Business
– one of the most prestigious business schools
in the world. At Southern Methodist University
she received recognition for having one of the
highest grade point averages in the school. In
addition to being experienced in information technology,
Mrs. Rouhani has a special interest in entrepreneurship.
Her senior thesis at Southern Methodist University
covered novel funding sources for start-ups and
included a detailed, end-to-end business plan
for funding a startup wireless security company.
Ciro Sisman Pereira, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Pereira has a long history of developing award winning
security software. He was most recently senior software consultant at
a leading security software company. One of his most famous designs
was a desktop personal firewall that was the first to act as an integrated
honeypot and host-based intrusion detection system. Mr. Pereira
has an intimate knowledge of programming on the Windows CE platform, and
he is the project leader of the Airscanner Mobile AntiVirus product.
In addition, he supervises secure, third party source code review of the
entire Airscanner product line.
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Reviews
of Airscanner Books
Reviews of Security Warrior
Reviewer: Peter H. Salus
There are more than a thousand books
concerning computer security listed at Amazon.com. About
a dozen of them are really worthwhile. That short list
has just grown to include Peikari and Chuvakin's tome.
Taking off from the lesson of Asian martial arts,
Peikari and Chuvakin emphasize what an attacker can do.
Understanding both the weaknesses of your establishment
and the abilities and mind-set of the malevolent is the
underlying key to what Security Warrior has to say.
Part I of Security Warrior concerns reverse engineering.
After a chapter on assembly language, we get a look at
reverse engineering on Windows platforms, on Linux, on
embedded platforms, and overflow attacks. Part II,
"Network Stalking," is fairly straightforward, though
I especially liked the presentation of social engineering (Chapter 7).
The two chapters in Part III ("Platform Attacks"),
which involve Windows security, are rather funny. Not
so much because Peikari and Chuvakin tell lots of
jokes, but because their presentation of Remote Assistance
(in XP) and how to crack Kerberos authentication
(in Windows Server) demonstrate just what an oxymoron "Windows security" is.
Part IV, "Advanced Defense," covers audit trail analysis,
Bayes' theorem, honeypots, and incident response and
forensics. Part V is an Appendix containing a number
of SoftIce commands. (SoftIce is the software debugger
that is a direct offspring of Intel's 8086 hardware-based debugger, ICE-86.)
Peikari and Chuvakin have written a valuable book
that will soon find its way onto the shelf of everyone
involved in network and machine security. I think of
it as a supplement to Firewalls and Internet Security
(Cheswick, Bellovin, and Rubin) and Schneier on
cryptography (and a number of other works). If Security
Warrior has a real shortcoming, it's the fact that none
of the other volumes is cited. There are references at
the end of nearly every chapter, but they are quite sparse
and frequently refer to other work by Peikari or Chuvakin,
or other O'Reilly books. But Security Warrior stands out
in several areas: reverse engineering and social psychology
most saliently. There are parts of Security Warrior that
are quite frightening. However, war is frightening —
computer/information war is no exception.
Reviews of Windows .NET Server Security Handbook
Reviewer: Don Wolf of SecuredSite.org
from Toronto, ON Canada
“One of the first titles in
the .NET security field. I must confess I haven’t
been particularly pleased with the titles I’ve
looked at so far in this area; rest assured
this is the exception. A lot of the chapters
read more like a tutorial than documentation,
with lots of screen shots and tables of settings
that explain more than you would probably learn
by sitting through another teacher-reads-book
Microsoft course.
When I went through the book
in detail I found some very useful nuggets.
For example one chapter covers the “security
configuration tool set”, a complex and confusing
aspect of Windows 2000. What’s useful here are
the series of examples that demonstrate some
aspects of how to use these tools. Additionally,
the book is full of definitions of security-related
terms, insight to new WiFi-based applications
and extensive coverage of Windows XP security
features. XP’s security is much of what is used
within the .NET framework, so don’t pass it
by.
Most of the book is like the
above—detailed passages of useful information
with more-than occasional implementation tips
thrown in. This book is a must-have and sure
to be the de-facto standard of .NET security
references.”
Reviewer: Information Security
Magazine
“Windows .NET Server Security
Handbook will interest anyone working with .NET
Server or Windows XP Professional. The authors
have chosen several important components of
these systems and their security ramifications.
Each discussion makes up a single chapter, including
background and technical explanations, plenty
of screenshots, and detailed configuration and
usage guides. Some topics are existing security
features that were updated in Windows XP/.NET,
such as the Encrypting File System. Others,
like Remote Assistance, are brand new. The chapters
are well thought-out, to the point and clearly
illustrated.”
Reader Feedback:
“Gents,
Just a few pages into your
new .NET Server Security Handbook - and I am
impressed! I have been looking for this information
on the .NET Server family of products for a
while and haven't found anything even close
to being as comprehensive and insightful as
what you have put together. Kudos on being first
to market!”
Joshua Leewarner, Sr. CISSP,
MCSE
Security Consultant
Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Seattle, WA, USA
Reviews of Maximum Wireless
Security
Reviewer: Help Net Security
"...Pure Gold."
The Barnes & Noble Review
“By now, it’s common knowledge
that conventional wireless networks are insecure.
But how, exactly, can they be attacked? And
how can you protect yourself? Wireless Maximum
Security shows you. Cyrus Peikari and Seth Fogie
walk you step-by-step through probing virtually
every area of potential weakness. They offer
hands-on coverage of everything from cracking
WEP to setting up rogue access points, from
surveillance and wardriving to jamming wireless
networks. In a full chapter on airborne viruses,
you'll discover how Palms and Pocket PCs have
become huge targets of opportunity for the creators
of malicious code.
There's a three-chapter section
on tools for identifying your own vulnerabilities,
starting with NetStumbler, the "mother of all
wireless network scanning tools.” The authors
introduce Ethereal and Kismet sniffers, AirSnort
and WEPCrack for capturing and decoding WEP-encrypted
wireless transmissions, and more. There's a
full chapter on hacking wireless networks with
a Pocket PC -- so you can wander around your
campus and discover which networks are easiest
to victimize. There's also a start-to-finish
walk-through of a wireless hacking session that
describes exactly how it's done.
Thankfully, Peikari and Fogie
turn to solutions next. You'll walk through
security measures focused on protecting access
points (for example, MAC filtering and DMZs);
firewalling; encryption improvements such as
TKIP; and, especially, VPN and wireless PKI-based
approaches. It'll take some effort, but with
this book's help you can secure your wireless
networks to the point where you're comfortable
using them.”
--Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant,
writer, and web/multimedia content developer.
His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word
2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For
Dummies®, Second Edition.
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