This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org

User:Wichers

From OWASP
Revision as of 16:35, 31 October 2016 by Wichers (talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search

About

BIO

Dave Wichers is a cofounder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aspect Security, a consulting company that specializes in application security services. He is also a long time contributor to OWASP, helping to establish the OWASP Foundation in 2004, serving on the OWASP Board since it was formed from 2004 through 2013, served as OWASP Conferences Chair from 2005 through 2008, is a coauthor of the OWASP Top 10 and has led that project since 2007. Dave is also the lead of the new OWAASP Benchmark project and has also contributed to numerous other important OWASP projects including WebGoat, ESAPI, ASVS, and the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series.

Dave has over 25 years of experience in the information security field, and has focused exclusively on application security since 1998. At Aspect, in addition to his COO duties, he is Aspect's application security courseware lead, one of their chief instructors, and provides a wide variety of application security consulting services to Aspect's clients. Prior to starting Aspect, he ran the Application Security Services Group at Exodus Communications. Dave has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science and is a CISSP.

OWASP Contributions

I have been contributing to OWASP since 2002. In 2004, along with Jeff Williams, we established the 501c3 organization that is now the OWASP Foundation. Since establishing the OWASP Foundation, I served as the de facto Chief Financial Officer of OWASP, until the OWASP Board established an Executive Director in mid 2013. In late 2004, I volunteered to become the OWASP Conferences Chair where I launched the OWASP Conferences Series, personally organized all the U.S. and European AppSec conferences from 2005 through 2008, and helped launch the Global Conferences Committee in 2009, which organized the conferences from 2009 through 2012. The OWASP Conferences have since grown to serve as a primary revenue generating resource for OWASP.

As a volunteer to OWASP, Dave is or has been:

For more details than this short bio on what I've done at OWASP, listen to my OWASP podcast.

Wiki Contributions

I've also done lots of OWASP conference presentations. Here are some of them:

Dave can be reached at: dave.wichers (at) aspectsecurity.com or dave.wichers (at) owasp.org

Retrieved from "https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php?title=User:Wichers&oldid=222864"