By: Prashant Phatak

The author has over 18 years of experience in the IT hardware, networking, Web technologies and IT security field. Prashant is MCSE and MCDBA certified and is also a F5 load balancer expert. In the IT security world, he is an ethical hacker and netforensic specialist. Prashant runs his own firm called Valency Networks in India (http://www.valencynetworks.com) providing consultancy in IT security design, security audit, infrastructure technology and business process management. He can be reached at prashant@valencynetworks.com.