The People of BSDCertification.org

BSDCG (BSD Certification Group) is comprised of educators, writers and sysadmins who are well versed in and passionate about BSD systems.

The Advisory Board is comprised of a group of respected voices within the Unix community who provide advice and wisdom on specific issues from time to time. Current Advisory Board members include former members of the CSRG at the University of Berkeley, developers, authors, trainers and speakers.

Translators are volunteers who are interested in seeing BSD Certification documents available in their native language.

Advisory Board

Richard Bejtlich

Advisory Board

Richard Bejtlich is founder of TaoSecurity, a company that helps clients detect, contain, and remediate intrusions using network security monitoring (NSM) principles. He authored the critically acclaimed Tao of Network Security Monitoring: Beyond Intrusion Detection in 2004 and Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions in 2005. Richard builds NSM sensors and general purpose servers using FreeBSD and has published articles on keeping the FreeBSD operating system and applications up-to-date. His home page is www.taosecurity.com and his popular Web log resides at http://taosecurity.blogspot.com.

Mike Karels

Advisory Board

Michael Karels is a Sr. Principal Engineer leading next-generation operating system work at Secure Computing Corporation. Previously he was responsible for BSD/OS as System Architect and VP Engineering at BSDI, and then as Principal Technologist at Wind River Systems. He spent eight years as the Principal Programmer of the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley as the system architect for the 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD releases of Berkeley UNIX. He is a co-author of the book The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System.

Greg Lehey

Advisory Board

Greg Lehey has spent a 30-year international career in Europe, USA and Australia. In the course of his career he has performed most jobs, ranging from kernel development to product management, from systems programming to systems administration, from processing satellite data to programming petrol pumps, from the production of CD-ROMs of ported free software to DSP instruction set design. He has been involved with BSD since 1992, and for many years he was a member of the FreeBSD Core Team and an active developer in the FreeBSD and NetBSD projects. He is the author of Porting UNIX Software and The Complete FreeBSD. He is also an ex-president of the Australian UNIX User Group.

David Maxwell

Advisory Board

David Maxwell is a NetBSD Developer and was a member of the NetBSD Security-Officer team from 2001-2005. He has had the opportunity to enjoy using NetBSD to make life easier for Manufacturers, Distributors, Governments, Cable Companies, ISPs, Semiconductor companies, and end-users. He currently works full time as a Software Designer for Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT)

Marshall Kirk McKusick

Advisory Board

Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast filesystem, and was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His particular areas of interest are the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. He earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and did his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned Masters degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration, and a doctorate in Computer Science. He is a past president and present board member of the Usenix Association, and is a member of ACM and IEEE.