Alexander Meisel (OWASP Germany)

Alexander Meisel (OWASP Germany, OWASP AppSec US ’08 speaker)

A member of OWASP Germany, Alexander Meisel is CTO and founder of 'art of defence'. He is in charge of product development, professional services and support.

His interest and expertise in the area of security dates back to his thesis in which he wrote about avoiding and tracing distributed denial-of-service attacks. He worked for a Swiss IT service provider as a Web security expert; later he joined LINX, Europe’s largest Internet exchange, where he took care of member network security issues. After working for three years as a senior consultant designing and implementing large Web farms, including security audits with a leading traffic management company, Alexander switched to the SPX Corporation, where he was the main project manager for Web application solutions in the SAP area.

Alex is one of the major contributors to OWASP’s whitepaper “Best Practices Guide: Web Application Firewalls,” which was released by the OWASP Germany Chapter has been translated into English, French, and Chinese.