About Me

Michael “Wolf” Halton, MSc – Email: wolf@wolfhalton.info
Published author on IT Security, and Open-Source Theory & Practice.
Popular Speaker on topics of Internet Security, Linux and Open-Source Adoption, and Project Management Strategies.
Founder, SourceFreedom.com – providing open-source-based security consulting, web strategy, hardware and software configuration services, project management and guidance to clients in the medical, real estate and entertainment industries.
Assisted in developing the curriculum for the Masters of Information Security specialization at Capella University.

Computer Security and Penetration Testing by Alfred Basta and Wolf Halton is the scariest book I’ve read since Stephen King’s “IT.” The book is published by Thomson and is used as a text book at many colleges and universities – Nick Dalton

… With real-world examples that reflect today’s most important and relevant security topics, Penetration Testing will address how and why people attack computers and networks, so that readers can be armed with the knowledge and techniques to successfully combat hackers. …  this book also aims to provide a clear differentiation between hacking myths and hacking facts. Straightforward in its approach, this valuable resource teaches the skills needed to go from hoping a system is secure to knowing that it is. Flipkart.com (India)

EDUCATION

• 2002 – Capella University, School of Technology – MS in Leadership and Project Management – Specialty in Network Infrastructure Security
• 1998 – University of Illinois – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – BA in Anthropology

PUBLICATIONS

• Top 10 Security Practices for Cloud Computing, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS) Special Issue on: “Recent Advances in Next-Generation and Resource-Constrained Converged Networks”, Halton, M.W. & Rahman S. Accepted for publication 2010
• Top-Down Web Design, 2008, HSI-US, Conyers GA
• Computer Security and Penetration Testing, Basta, A., 2007, Cengage/Delmar Learning,
• “Vista and Feisty Fawn,” Faulkners Security Magazine, 2007
• “Open Source & Security,” http://www.secureworldexpo.com/articles/?p=53 , 2007
• YourCompanyBuzz.com: Website Development for Entrepreneurs 2nd Ed. 2007, HSI-US, Conyers GA

CERTIFICATIONS

• CompTIA A+ Certified Computer Technician

COMMUNITY & OPEN-SOURCE

• Evergreen-ILS Contributor
• DSpace Project Contributor
• Member Mozilla Developers
• Firefox Extension Developer
• Ubuntu Documentation Team Member
• Ubuntuforums.org Beginners Questions Team & Unanswered Questions Team
• OpenOffice.org User Support Planning Team
• Apache OpenOffice Project Board Member & Committer