Wietse Zweitze Venema

Contact information is given at the end of this document.

Previous life

In a previous life I studied physics at Groningen University in the Netherlands, where I did my Ph.D. dissertation on work done at the KVI.

I spent 12 years at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands, as systems architect at the Mathematics and Computing Science department. For 8 years, part of that time was devoted to writing tools for automated translation of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) messages. The result of this effort lives on under the flag of Descartes.

Current life

Most people know me from software that I wrote to protect systems against Internet intruders. I have given away the programs that I use myself. Click here for an overview of my tools and papers.

I am continuing this tradition with IBM, at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, in the USA. The first result is Postfix. This is mail server software that aims to be fast, easy to configure, and that hopefully is secure. A second result is the Coroner's Toolkit, written with Dan Farmer, primarily for the post-mortem analysis of computer break-ins.

Meanwhile I am chairing the FIRST, an international association of computer security teams with over 80 members world-wide in government, industry, and academia.

Private life

Weather permitting, Annita and I take weekly breaks for riding our bycicles or for walking up and down one of the many hills in the region.

Contact information

Email: wietse@porcupine.org

PGP public key: wietse.pgp

Dr. W.Z. Venema
T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
USA

Time zone: USA EST, which is 6 hours behind central Europe.