The best of the best?

I recently found out about the security company Matasano. They only consist of five researchers, but WOW what an impressive line up.

jeremy rauch
For over 10 years Jeremy Rauch has been at the forefront of information security. An original member of the ISS X-Force and a co-founder of SecurityFocus, Jeremy is the discoverer of numerous security vulnerabilities in widely-deployed commercial products. Jeremy is also a former principal engineer for optical switching at Tellium.

thomas ptacek
Thomas Ptacek brings over 10 years of product development and security research experience to Matasano. Thomas has owned technical operations at Chicago's most popular ISP, authored Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service, a landmark paper which broke every shipping intrusion detection product on the market, and at Arbor Networks led the development of a security product deployed on the backbone of virtually every tier-1 ISP worldwide.

david goldsmith
Co-author of the first published i386 stack overflow, David Goldsmith is a respected consultant, trainer, and researcher with over eleven years of experience. David co-founded @stake, managed its critical NYC office, and led Symantec Security Academy. David invented firewalking, which reverse-engineers firewall rules from remote firewalls and authored security tools for ISS and Network Associates

window snyder
Co-author of Threat Modeling, Window played a pivotal role in Windows XP Service Pack 2, the most important Win32 security update since i386 protected mode. As a senior security strategist for Microsoft, Window's responsibilities also included Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange. Prior to Microsoft, Window was a founding team member at @stake.

dino dai zovi
Author of numerous papers and presentations on exploitation techniques, 802.11 wireless attacks, and OS kernel security, Dino comes to Matasano from the Attack and Exploitation Team at Bloomberg. Dino's career spans over 7 years and includes key roles at @stake, and the IDART Red Team at Sandia Labs. He has spoken at security conferences including IEEE, DEFCON, CanSecWest, and PACSEC.

An impressive list to say the least. You might remember that @stake was founded by the hacking group l0pth, most famous for l0pthcrack. Thomas Ptacek is one of my favourites among the security industry, with his groundbreaking ideas on intrusion detection. Other people that I look up to is Marcus Ranum, Dave Aitel and of course Metasploit author H.D Moore. They have some neat wisdom and knowledge of security, and all participate openly in discussions. This is something I miss from all the self-proclaimed "experts" here in Sweden, or Europe in general.