User:Riotaro OKADA

Researcher and Consultant especially for the IT governance, the management of software security and the communication for enterprises.

• WASForum Director and one of the organizers of Hardening Project http://wasforum.jp since 2004
• Executive Director of Asterisk Research, Inc. since 2006
• The founder and lead of OWASP Japan since 2011
• The organizer of AppSec APAC 2014 in Tokyo.
• Best Chapter Leader at OWASP WASPY AWARD 2014.;-)
• Business Breakthrough University Part Time Faculty http://bbt.ac/faculty/global-teacherlist2.php since 2015

They call him Rio in English.

Born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He has been involved in network construction, software development and the implementation of information security measures at independent software development companies, the R&D divisions of manufacturing companies as well as consulting firms. He has also facilitated various technology-related communities such as for Linux, Apache, PHP, and so on. In 2004, he founded the Web Application Security Forum to promote the web application security knowledge in Japan and as a member of the board became involved in the diffusion of security-related information. Moreover, he was also a guest-researcher at the Information-technology Promotion Agency Japan (IPA) for 8 years and responsible for the IT strategy research of local governments as well as the disaster response project. He is a guest-faculty at Business Breakthrough University in Japan. CISA certified and holds an MBA from BBT (2009).

mail to Rio

• WASForum 理事ならびにHardening Project オーガナイザー
• アスタリスク・リサーチ代表取締役/リサーチャ
• 2011年の発足よりOWASP Japanチャプターリーダー
• AppSec APAC in Tokyo 2014 実行委員長
• 2014年にOWASPよりWASPY AWARD ベスト・チャプター・リーダー賞を受賞
• 2015年よりBBT大学にて「教養としてのサイバーセキュリティ」開講

兵庫県神戸市出身。 独立系ソフトウェア開発会社、製造業のR&D部門、コンサルティング・ファームにて、ソフトウェア開発とネットワーク構築、そしてセキュリティ対策の改善に携わった。Linux、Apache、PHPなどの技術関連のコミュニティを運営することに関わった。2004年にWASForumを創立、理事としてセキュリティ関連の情報交換の場として運営。また、IPAの非常勤研究員として8年間勤務し、自治体のIT戦略のリサーチや、災害対策のプロジェクトを担当した。また、BBT大学にて教鞭をとっている。 CISA、MBAを保有。