whitehat

Dave Wichers

IRL Name: 
Dave Wichers
Biography: 

Dave Wichers is the co-founder of Aspect Security and a long time contributor to OWASP including being a member of the OWASP Board since it was formed in 2003. In 2004, along with Jeff Williams, they established the 501c3 organization that is now the OWASP Foundation. He has also done lots of OWASP conference presentations like 'Unraveling some of the Mysteries around DOM-based XSS', 'Agile Security - Breaking the Waterfall Mindset of the Security Industry', 'Security in Agile Development', 'How to Avoid Flaws in the First Place: The OWASP ESAPI Project', etc.

Pictures: 

Francis Cianfrocca

IRL Name: 
Francis Cianfrocca
Biography: 

Francis Cianfrocca is the founder and CEO of Bayshore Networks LLC, in New York City. He is the inventor of Bayshore’s SingleKey, an information-assurance product used for protection of corporate and industrial information systems.

Prior to Bayshore, Francis founded Tempest Software Inc. in 1995, developing middleware products for advanced enterprise applications. The company flourished under his leadership, experiencing strong revenue growth and attracted investments from first-tier venture capital firms. In 1991, he founded Heldenleben Corporation, where he developed HeldenPort, the world's first compiler for a graphical 4GL. The product was licensed and marketed to over 40,000 developers around the world. Francis has held senior technology positions at the Bank of New York, New York Life Insurance Company and several major corporations. Francis also led development of major enterprise applications for use in finance, manufacturing, treasury management, and underwriting environments.

Pictures: 
References

Nick Percoco

IRL Name: 
Nicholas J. Percoco
Biography: 

Nicholas J. Percoco is one of the leaders of the global SpiderLabs organization. Prior to joining Trustwave, Percoco ran security consulting practices at VeriSign, and Internet Security Systems. In 2004, he drafted an application security framework that became known as the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP). In 2008, this framework was adopted as a global standard called Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS).

His research works has been featured by many news organizations including: The Washington Post, eWeek, PC World, CNET, Wired, Hakin9, Network World, Dark Reading, Fox News, USA Today, Forbes, Computerworld, CSO Magazine, CNN, The Times of London, NPR, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Pictures: 

Jon McCoy

Biography: 

Jon McCoy is a .NET Software Engineer who focuses on security and forensics and the founder of DigitalBodyGuard.com. He has worked on a number of Open Source projects ranging from hacking tools to software for paralyzed people.

Pictures: 
References

Rsnake

IRL Name: 
Robert Hansen
Biography: 

Robert "RSnake" Hansen is the author of 'Detecting Malice' book and the ha.ckers.org web application security lab. He has spoken at industry conferences around the world and is widely considered to be a security hyena, although some consider him an expert in web application security. Much of the controversy has come from him hyping up bad html as a vulnerability known as "clickjacking" and for calling out Tavis Ormandy to be fired for releasing exploit code (because the right to free speech is ridiculous)

Pictures: 
References

Antoine Jacoutot

IRL Name: 
Antoine Jacoutot
Biography: 

Antoine Jacoutot is an open source contributor and more specifically an OpenBSD developer in Paris, France. He is responsible for more than 300 packages, wrote the sysmerge ( 8 ) utility and was part the OpenBSD rc.d ( 8 ) framework development. He runs OpenBSD for pretty much everything.

References

V1RU5

IRL Name: 
Robert Lupo
Biography: 

Robert Lupo a.k.a V1RU5 has lectured and presented at DEFCON plus H2K, H2K2, University of Illinois, North Dakota State University and others nation wide.

References

digininja

IRL Name: 
Robin Wood
Biography: 

Robin Wood a.k.a digininja is a freelance software developer and pen-tester. Because of the development background Robin specialises in web application testing, being able to look at the test from both a testers and developers point of view. Also a personal interest in wifi got Robin his start in security when he took over development of Karma and migrated the Madwifi patches from the original to ng.

References

Kevin Johnson

IRL Name: 
Kevin Johnson
Biography: 

Kevin Johnson came to security from a development and system administration background. He founded and leads the development on BASE (the Basic Analysis and Security Engine) project. The BASE project is the most popular web interface for the Snort intrusion detection system. Kevin also leads development on Yokoso!, Laudanum, Social Butterfly, and the SamuraiWTF distribution.

References

Johnny Chung Lee

IRL Name: 
Johnny Chung Lee
Biography: 

Johnny Chung Lee is a hardware hacker and computer scientist known for hacking Wiimote in 2008 using a few ballpoint pens and infrared lights. He was then hired by Microsoft to develop the Kinect. He is also known for his work on Kinect development, extending the functionality of the Wii Remote controller of the Wii video game console, most notably by taking advantage of its high resolution IR camera. Lee's other projects include an interactive whiteboard, 3D head tracking, finger tracking, and a DIY telepresence robot.

He is now working in Google.

Pictures: 
References
Syndicate content