Tim Newsham

Who is Tim Newsham?

Tim Newsham is a computer security professional. He has been contributing to the security community for more than a decade. He has performed research while working at security companies including @stake, Guardent, ISS, and Network Associates. Mr. Newsham is best known for co-authoring the paper Insertion, Evasion and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection with Thomas Ptacek, a paper that broke every Network Intrusion Detection product on the market and has been cited by more than 150 academic works on Network Intrusion Detection since.

He has published other prominent white papers:

The Problem With Random Increments

Format String Attacks

Cracking WEP Keys: Applying Known Techniques to WEP Keys

In addition to his research, Mr. Newsham is also known for his pioneering work on security products, including:

Internet Security Scanner

Ballista Scanner

The software that would later drive Veracode