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Jeff Williams, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security. He recently authored the DZone DevSecOps, IAST, and RASP refcards and speaks frequently at conferences including JavaOne (Java Rockstar), BlackHat, QCon, RSA, OWASP, Velocity, and PivotalOne. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for 9 years, and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many more popular open source projects. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.

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THE FORTHCOMING 2021 OWASP TOP TEN SHOWS THAT THREAT MODELING IS NO LONGER OPTIONAL

THE FORTHCOMING 2021 OWASP TOP TEN SHOWS THAT THREAT MODELING IS NO LONGER OPTIONAL

In 2003, two years after the organization was founded, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) published the..

CONTRAST APPLICATION SECURITY PLATFORM CUTS VULNERABILITY ESCAPE RATE (VER) FROM 12 TO 1 IN A YEAR

CONTRAST APPLICATION SECURITY PLATFORM CUTS VULNERABILITY ESCAPE RATE (VER) FROM 12 TO 1 IN A YEAR

Application Security Observability Report Shows Developers Write More Secure Code the More They Use the Contrast..

Contrast Challenges the AST Status Quo in the Gartner 2021 AST Magic Quadrant

Contrast Challenges the AST Status Quo in the Gartner 2021 AST Magic Quadrant

Gartner released its latest Magic Quadrant for application security testing (AST)—naming Contrast Security as a..

SAST, DAST, and IAST Security Testing

SAST, DAST, and IAST Security Testing

Quick Review Of Application Security Testing When I attend social functions with friends, people often ask what I do...

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Benefits | 7 Advantages

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) works in fundamentally different ways than static or dynamic testing..

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Jeff Williams, Contrast CTO: Security Predictions for 2018

Security Predictions for 2018 The world of software is changing quickly at all of our clients. As we look across tens..

A Week of Web Application Hacks and Vulnerabilities

A Week of Web Application Hacks and Vulnerabilities

Wow, what a week! Our industry is rippling from all the news surrounding the latest Struts 2 vulnerability and the..

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Thoughts on Modern Security Practices and Security Frameworks

How have modern assets like cloud instances, web-based applications, mobile devices, application containers, and others..

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How Code Vulnerabilities Can Lead to Bad Accidents

Are you interested in the security of the open source libraries you're trusting with your business? If so, you may want..