Edward Amoroso's career has been dedicated to making networks more secure. Recently, he completed work in the highly-complex and ever-changing area of network intrusion detection, by developing what are, in effect, burglar alarms for Internet-protocol (IP) networks. Amoroso helped position AT&T in the network-security arena and successfully marketed cyber-defense offerings to customers such as the U.S. government. Since the 1980s, Amoroso developed many security techniques and training courses for AT&T and our customers. He also pioneered underlying approaches and structures for firewalls that are still used within AT&T.
Dr. Edward Amoroso is presently the Vice President of Network Security at AT&T where he is responsible for protection of the AT&T network infrastructure. Ed is also responsible for Internet security development and engineering projects for commercial, government, international, and AT&T groups. Ed also directs eBusiness and Information Assurance offer management in AT&T Government Markets. His areas of interest include intrusion detection, public key infrastructure (PKI) design, and system security engineering. He has been with AT&T since 1985.
In addition to his position at AT&T Laboratories, Ed holds adjunct faculty positions in the graduate computer science department at the Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey as well as the graduate software engineering department at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. During the past decade, nearly a thousand students have taken his Internet security, introductory cryptography, and intrusion detection courses. Many students have changed their careers to security as a result of their experiences in one of the courses.
Ed's publications include nearly three dozen-security researches and technical articles for journals, conferences, and magazines. His first book Fundamentals of Computer Security Technology (Prentice-Hall 1994) remains in print and continues to serve as a text for many introductory computer security courses. His second book PCWeek Intranet and Internet Firewall Strategies, with Ron Sharp (Ziff-Davis, 1996) also remains in print and has been translated into Dutch, Japanese, and Spanish. Ed's third book Intrusion Detection (An Introduction to Internet Surveillance, Correlation, Trace Back, Traps, and Response) (Intrusion.Net Books, 1998), is the result of two years of research and development in this area.
Ed is a frequent lecturer around the world on topics related to systems, network, and Internet security. He was recently sworn in as an Internet security consultant to the Social Security Administration and has testified before many committees and panels in Washington and elsewhere. He is a proud, long standing member of the IEEE, ACM, and Internet Society and serves as an advisory editor for Network Security (Elseview Publications).