Fabien Casteran - Senior Security Engineer, Security Innovation

Fabien is one of Security Innovation’s most tenured and experienced Engineers. He brings a wealth of application testing and knowledge to the company, where he serves in a lead capacity on application security research, development and assessment initiatives. Fabien is proficient in a wide range of programming languages, platform technologies, Web protocols and data structures. He has leveraged his software quality and application analysis skills to develop a plethora of application quality and security test tools. He has also tested applications for some of the largest companies in the world including Microsoft, ING, SAP and Motorola.

Fabien served as a lead researcher on an extensive Windows vs. Linux Web Server role comparison security project, which was recognized publicly for its quality and sound methodology He has contributed written and oral commentary for numerous media outlets such as CIO Update and Processer. Fabien has also delivered presentations at world-class industry venues, including:

• “How to Break Web Software”. SQS International 2007, Cologne, Germany
• “Web Security Paranoia: Myths & Realities”. WebSec 2006 in London
• “Baking Security into Software”. RSA Conference Europe 2006
• “How to Break Software Security”. Insight, London.

Fabien received an M.S in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology and wrote a thesis entitled: “Towards a Customer-Centric View of Security”. He is fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.