Ben Rothke is a New York city-based, senior security consultant with BT Professional Services and has over 15 years of industry experience in informatioin systems, security, and privacy. His expertise lies in risk management and mitigation; security and privacy regulatory issues; design and implementation of systems security; encryption, cryptography, and security policy development; and a specialization in the financial services and aviation sectors. Prior to joining BT, Ben was with AXA, Baltimore Technologies, Ernst & Young, and Citicorp. He provides security solutions to many Fortune 500 companies. Ben is the author of Complete Security -- 20 Things Every Employee Should Know (McGraw-Hill) and is a contributing author to Network Security: The Complete Reference (Osborne) and The Handbook of Information Security  Management (Auerbach). He writes a monthly security book review for Security Management and is a former columnist for Information Security, Unix Review, and Solutions Integrator magazines. Ben is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, such as CSI, RSA, MISTI, NetSec and ISACA.