Jeff Williams - We Are in the Stone Age for Application Security

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) - Portland, Oregon Chapter

Our special guest today is Jeff Williams, Co-Founder and CTO of Contrast Security. Jeff was one of the pioneering members who formed the Open Web Application Security Project® (OWASP). Not only did he chair it, he also contributed to many successful open source projects, including WebGoat, the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), the OWASP Top Ten and much more. Without him and others we would not be doing this podcast today. Besides founding Contrast Security in 2014, he started Aspect Security in 2002. Jeff got his law degree at Georgetown University Law Center along with a computer science and psychology degree at the University of Virginia. In the early 1990's, he built high assurance systems for the U.S. Navy and taught the INFOSEC curriculum for the NSA during the good old days of the Orange Book - a trusted computer system evaluation criteria for the U.S. Department of Defense.
We want to say thank you to Contrast Security for being one of our sponsors for the inaugural OWASP Pacific Northwest Application Security Conference 2021.
Jeff's Links

• Contrast Security
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Security Maganize Article - New NIST Standards on IAST and RASP Deliver State-of-the-Art AppSec
• WebGoat
• ASVS
• BlackHat USA - Enterprise Java Rootkits - "Hardly anyone watches the developers"

PNWSEC

• https://pnwcon.com
• Twitter: @pnwseccon
• [e-mail] (contact)

Jeff Williams was interviewed by David Quisenberry and John L. Whiteman.
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