Dan Farmer

Dan Farmer is a computer security researcher. In a summer course in 1989, in order to graduate from Purdue University he started the development of the COPS_(software) program for identifying security issues on Unix systems under Gene Spafford, first releasing it after leaving Purdue in late 1989. In 1995, he and Wietse Venema created Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), one of the earliest network based vulnerability scanners. SATAN was a controversial program when it was released, because some security administrators and law enforcement personnel believed that hackers would use it to identify and break into private networks.

With Venema, Farmer authored [http://www.awprofessional.com/title/020163497X Forensic Discovery] , a book about forensic techniques for gathering digital evidence.

= Notable Projects =

*The Coroner s Toolkit (co-authored with Venema) *Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (co-authored with Venema) *COPS_(software) *Titan (computer program) (co-authored with Brad Powell and Matt Archibald)

= External Links =

*[http://www.fish2.com/security/ Dan Farmer s Security Projects]