David M. Piscitello is the founder of The Internet Security Conference. He is also president and founder of Core Competence, Inc. He advises and consults for security and broadband access, *SP's, and Fortune 100 companies. David is an advisory board member of Foundstone, Inc., Watchguard Technologies, and Villa Montage, and a former member of the boards of advisors for Covad and CoSine Communications. David has been involved in the development of proprietary and open internetworking technology for 20 years. He is a past Internet Area Director for the IESG and has written several Internet RFCs. He has authored books on internetworking and remote access, and publishes and speaks regularly on a variety of subjects including wireless data networking, switched internetworking, broadband local access, Internet security, Internet appliances, and virtual private networking.