Anton Chuvakin


Anton Chuvakin is a computer security specialist, currently a Research Director at Gartner for Technical Professionals Security and Risk Management Strategies team. Formerly he was a principal at Security Warrior Consulting. Previous positions included roles of a Director of PCI Compliance Solutions at Qualys, a U.S. Vulnerability management company, a Chief Logging Evangelist with LogLogic, a U.S. Log Management and Intelligence company and a Security Strategist with netForensics, a U.S. Security information management company.
A physicist by education, he is an author of many publications and invited talks on computer and network security and a
co-author of "Security Warrior" published in 2004 by O'Reilly and later translated and published in German, Polish and Japanese. His other books include "PCI Compliance" republished in 2009 by Syngress Publishing and "Logging and Log Management: The Authoritative Guide to Understanding the Concepts Surrounding Logging and Log Management" published in 2012 by Syngress Publishing.
Anton's contributions to information security are focused on log management and PCI DSS compliance.