Kurt is an independent consultant who relocated his family from the U.S. to Corrientes, Argentina a few years ago. He writes books, articles, and other documents on the challenges of information security for a variety of organizations, including Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Government. In recent years, Kurt has been helping with NIST's United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) program (http://usgcb.nist.gov). He has collaborated on numerous security guides and tools published by Microsoft, including the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide, Windows 7 Security Guide, and the Security Compliance Manager: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displayLang=en&id=16776. You can also find out more about Kurt's work at his website: http://www.kurtdillard.com.