Ben S. Knowles (Twitter,GitHub @dfirnotes) is a professional computer security consultant and educator in the Atlanta, Georgia, USA area. Ben presents at local groups and conferences on analysis, forensics, and security education, leads Community classes on defense, response, and analysis with the SANS Institute and has bugs and patches in a few public tools. Ben is an information security engineer on the incident response team of a global firm.

BBSTi, CISSP, GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, GNFA, GMON, GCFA, GSE, ITILF, LPIC-1