Designing Secure Software

Michael Howard (CISSP) is the co-author of the best-selling title, Writing Secure Code, from MS Press, now in its second edition and 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security. He is the Senior Program Manager of the Secure Windows Initiative at Microsoft where he works on secure engineering discipline, process improvement and building software for humans to use. He works with hundreds of people both inside and outside the company each year to help them secure their applications. Michael is a prominent speaker at numerous conferences including Microsoft's TechEd and the PDC. He is also a co-author of Processes to Produce Secure Software published by the Dept. of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security. David LeBlanc, Ph.D, is Chief Software Architect for Webroot Software, was previously Security Architect in the Office group at Microsoft, and is the coauthor of the best-selling title, Writing Secure Code, now in its second edition and 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security. He has worked in the security field throughout his professional life, including working at Internet Security Systems where he was the primary engineer on ISS's award-winning security products. David serves on a number of external security-related advisory boards.