Joe Basirico, Security Analyst
Joe's primary responsibility at Security
Innovation is to deliver security courses to Software Teams
in need of application security expertise. He has trained
developers and testers from numerous world-class
organizations such as Microsoft, HP, EMC, Symantec, Liberty
Mutual, Sony, Credit Suisse, Amazon.com, Adobe
and ING.
Joe is also responsible for participating in customer
security process assessments as well as security engineering
activities such as security design reviews, security code
reviews, and security testing and security deployment
reviews.
Joe has been interviewed on several occasions by media
outlets including SC Magazine and Software Test &
Performance. He has written several whitepapers and articles
that focus on vulnerabilities at the source code level,
including:
- “Scan your Source Code to Locate Weak Spots Early - Software Test & Performance
- “Data Mining Precautions for Web App Security: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data” DM Review
- “Whitebox Security Testing Using Code Scanning” - Dr. Dobbs Journal
- “The Perils and Possibilities of Patching” - CIO Update
- “The Dangers of Data Mining” - DM Review
Joe is a seasoned practitioner and researcher in the field of incorporating security into the SDLC and a highly demanded presenter and for the topic of software development best practices. He has delivered presentations at several world-class venues, including:
- The Five Most Dangerous Application Security Vulnerabilities - and How to Test for Them. Software Test & Performance, Nov '06
- How to Break Software. NationWide Insurance Testing Symposium Keynote, Sep '06
- Building Secure & Reliable Web Applications. Software Security Summit, Jun '06
- The Five Most Dangerous Application Security Vulnerabilities - and How to Test for Them. SecureWorld Seattle, Sep '06
- Building Secure Applications in an Insecure World. OJ.X 2005, Compuware’s annual application development conference, Oct '05
- Holodeck – an Introduction to Fault-Injection. Microsoft Professional Developers Conference Oct '05
Joe holds a B.S in Computer Science Graduate from Montana State University.