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John Viega contact: <my last name> at viega.org Work Founder and CEO, Stonewall Software Writings John is the co-author of four books on application security, Building Secure Software (Addison Wesley, 2001), Network Security with OpenSSL (O’Reilly, 2002), the Secure Programming Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2003) and the 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security (McGraw Hill, 2005). He also built the original CLASP application security process, which is available on-line. Biography Before Stonewall, John was Vice President, Chief Security Architect at McAfee, where he worked on technical strategy and M+A (SiteAdvisor, Onigma) and ran a large development organization that included SiteAdvisor and McAfee's core anti-virus and anti-spyware technologies. John was also founder and CTO of Secure Software, which was acquired by Fortify. John received a MS in Computer Science and a BA from the University of Virginia. Research and Development John’s research areas have included application security, cryptography, programming languages and usability. He co-developed GCM, a mode of operation for block ciphers such as AES that has been incorporated into IPSec and the 802.1AE draft document, and is currently being standardized by NIST. Free and Open Source Software Despite being cautious about embracing the open source security theory, John h Hobbies John wishes he had more time for his kids, bridge and baseball. |
