Josh has worked as a consultant in IT/Application Security and Risk for 15 years now as well as a Software Developer. In that time he has seen the good, the bad and the stuff which is sadly/luckily still covered by an NDA. He is currently Chief Technology Officer for Bounce Security where he spends his time helping organizations improve and get better value from their Application Security processes and providing specialist Application Security advice. In his spare time he co-leads the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard project and is on the OWASP Israel chapter board.
John Poulin is an experienced Application Security Practitioner with over 10 years of experience in software development and security. Over his tenure, John has worked with many Fortune 500 companies and startups alike to perform secure code review, architecture, and design discussions, as well as threat modeling.Currently, as a Staff manager of Product Security Engineering at GitHub, John and his team focus on performing secure code review of features and services, performing threat modeling, and overall helping to ensure that our software ecosystem is moving towards security maturity. John has given talks or training at many industry conferences, such as DEF CON, LASCON, DevSecCon, CactusCon, Source, as well as various Ruby and OWASP events about practical Application Security.
Matt Tesauro is a DevSecOps and AppSec guru with specialization in creating security programs, leveraging automation to maximize team velocity and training emerging and senior professionals. When not writing automation code in Go, Matt is pushing for DevSecOps everywhere via his involvement in open-source projects, presentations, trainings and new technology innovation. As a versatile engineer, Matt’s background spans software development (primarily web development), Linux system administration, penetration testing and application / cloud security. He thrives on tackling technical problems, but his economics background gives him a unique understanding of business constraints and incentives around security initiatives. Currently, as a Distinguished Engineer at Noname Security, Matt is evangelizing Noname’s ground-breaking API security platform and API security in general. Previously, he rolled out AppSec automation at USAA and founded 10Security. Early in his career, Matt served as Director of Community and Operations at the OWASP Foundation, Senior AppSec Engineer at Duo Security, Senior Software Security Engineer at Pearson and Senior Product Security Engineer at Rackspace.
After 15 years in itsec and 22 in IT Abraham is now the CEO of 7ASecurity (7asecurity.com), a company specializing in penetration testing of web/mobile apps, infrastructure, code reviews and training. Co-Author of the Mobile, Web and Desktop (Electron) app 7ASecurity courses. Security Trainer at Blackhat USA, HITB, OWASP Global AppSec and many other events. Former senior penetration tester / team lead at Cure53 and Version 1. Creator of “Practical Web Defense”, a hands-on eLearnSecurity attack / defense course, OWASP OWTF project leader, an OWASP flagship project (owtf.org), Major degree and Diploma in Computer Science, some certs: CISSP, OSCP, GWEB, OSWP, CPTS, CEH, MCSE:Security, MCSA:Security, Security+. As a shell scripting fan trained by unix dinosaurs, Abraham wears a proud manly beard. He writes on Twitter as @7asecurity @7a_ @owtfp or https://7asecurity.com/blog. Multiple presentations, pentest reports and recordings can be found at https://7asecurity.com/publications
Dr. John DiLeo is the Auckland-area leader of the OWASP New Zealand Chapter. He is currently leading Datacom's Application Security Services team, providing support and guidance to clients, in Australia and New Zealand, in launching, managing, and maturing their enterprise software assurance programs. Before he started 'doing AppSec' full-time, John was active as a Java enterprise architect and Web application developer. In an earlier life, John had specialized in developing discrete-event simulations of large distributed systems, in a variety of languages - including the Java-based language (FreeSML) he developed. John is on the core team for the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) Project, and is a member of the OWASP Education and Training Committee.
Dr Kostas (Konstantinos) Papapanagiotou is a cyber security consultant that helps organizations around the world improve their security posture. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of cyber security both as a corporate consultant and as a researcher. Over those years he has led numerous projects ranging from penetration tests to the implementation of complex corporate security, compliance and data loss prevention solutions. He is passionate about teaching and has delivered courses to hundreds of students, security professionals and developers. He has been involved in OWASP since 2004, leading the OWASP Greek Chapter and several educational initiatives. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Hellenic-American University in the field of Cyber Security. He holds a PhD and BSc in Cyber Security from the University of Athens and an MSc in Information Security with distinction from Royal Holloway.
Fabio delivered this training to thousands of developers and security professionals. He also regularly delivers training to technical audiences on various topics such as application security, cloud security, and information security. Here is a reference from one attendee of his courses: Fabio is an excellent instructor. I was lucky enough to attend one of the courses where he was the instructor. He was able to present the subject matter in an interesting way and at an appropriate pace. He encouraged interaction and was able to answer questions with ease by leveraging his extensive experience in the industry.
Fabio Cerullo is an official certified instructor for (ISC)², the global leader in information security education and certification. He is also an AWS authorized instructor covering architecting and security topics. Fabio has over 15 years of experience in the information security field gained across a diverse range of industries ranging from financial and government institutions to software houses and start-ups. He regularly trains professionals from different backgrounds in application security, cloud security, and information security. He is a regular speaker at events organized by OWASP, ISACA and (ISC)² among others; and provides commentary and written articles for specialized industry media (Computer Weekly, Infosecurity Magazine, SiliconRepublic.com, etc). He holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from UCA, the SSCP, CISSP, CSSLP & CCSP certifications from (ISC)² and the AWS Certified Solution Architect certification.
Sebastien (Seba) Deleersnyder is co-founder and CTO of Toreon. He started the Belgian OWASP chapter and was an OWASP Foundation Board member. With a development background and years of security experience, he has trained countless developers to create more secure software. Leading OWASP projects such as OWASP SAMM, he has genuinely helped make the world a safer place. What’s he currently up to? Right now, he’s busy adapting application security models to the evolving field of DevOps and is also focused on getting the word out on Threat Modeling to a broader audience.