Meet the Bloggers

Barmak Meftah

Senior Vice President, Products and Services

Barmak is fascinated by software security because of the intelligent and intuitive ways that criminal hackers have found to break into the software we build. Now, he is embracing the challenge to equip developers and enterprises with the tools and practices they need to stay ahead of the hackers.

Brian Chess

Founder and Chief Scientist

Brian initially embraced software security as a way to escape from graduate school. After he finished his Ph.D. on source code analysis, he was amazed to find that software security matters in the real world too. These days he spends his time looking into new ways to make software both easy to build and secure at the same time.

Jacob West

Manager, Security Research Group

Jacob initially studied security flaws in operating systems due to his concern over the risk that our migration toward mobile and wireless technologies poses. He soon realized that critical security flaws pose an even greater threat to users of desktop and online applications, on which we rely even more heavily. Today, Jacob spends his days identifying better ways to prevent software security bugs and helping the people responsible for building enterprise software do so securely.

Michael Armistead

Founder & Vice President, Corporate Development

Mike comes to security from the process side of development and brings the philosophy that silver bullets are rarely as effective as a more comprehensive plan of attack. Having learned firsthand how valuable it can be for businesses to prevent and fix problems while they are still minor, he is now sharing the lessons he has learned about how significant the financial returns of this proactive stance are.

Roger Thornton

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Roger Comes to Security almost accidentally, via an extensive background in the software development realm. Driven by a deep dislike of claims within the security realm based on the premise that the measure of security is proven by a lack of exploitation, Roger passionately strives to convert more people (as he was once converted) to the necessity of properly implemented software security practices.

Rob Rachwald

Marketing Ninja

Rob made an interesting evolution from politics to software. Having started his professional career in Washington DC, he then went into technology. After stints around the world with Intel and Commerce One, he ran marketing for Coverity. Having seen first hand how developers grapple with, and often deny, security issues in code, Rob's experience in politics is coming in useful again.