Eric C. Thompson is the author of two previous Apress books: Building a HIPAA Compliant Cybersecurity Program and Cybersecurity Incident Response. He is certified by GIAC in intrusion analysis, incident handling, network forensics, and detection. He is currently Director of Information Security and IT Compliance at Blue Health Intelligence, a company focused on data analytics in the healthcare payer space. He has Implemented and matured all elements of security operations. He is a passionate user of many open-source solutions and loves working with new implementations of Snort, Zeek, and SOF-ELK. He also has significant experience assessing and managing cyber risks and complying with HIPAA.