Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.

Current

• Chief Security Strategist at People Security
• Member of the Graduate Faculty at Florida Institute of Technology

Past

• Chief Security Strategist at Security Innovation

Education

• Florida Institute of Technology

Connections

97 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Company

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Summary

Currently Founder and Chief Security Strategist at People Security (www.peoplesecurity.com) an enterprise security education company. I’ve co-authored a few books on software security including How to Break Software Security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing (with Dr. James Whittaker, published by Addison-Wesley, 2003), and The Software Vulnerability Guide (with Scott Chase, published by Charles River 2005). Most of my professional life has been spent creating methodologies that help build demonstrably more secure software and training developers, architects, security testers and executives on security. A lot of my time is spent evangelizing security through talks/keynotes at conferences and corporations, writing industry books and articles on software security, and interacting with the press.

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Specialties:

software security, security metrics, evoting security

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Experience

• Chief Security Strategist

  People Security

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  My role is to help define application security assurance processes and methodologies as well as to develop courses and e-learning solutions that enable software designers, developers, and testers to build more secure and robust applications. My goal is to help create application security awareness through delivering talks/keynotes at key conferences and Fortune 500 corporations, writing industry-defining books and articles on software security, and interacting with the press.

• Member of the Graduate Faculty

  Florida Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  My work at Florida Tech is heavily research oriented. My research is primarily in the fields of software security and testing.

• Chief Security Strategist

  Security Innovation

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 4 months)

  Lead the creation of new methodologies, techniques, and processes to build security into software.

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Education

• Florida Institute of Technology

  Ph.D. , Applied Mathematics , 1999 — 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  Dissertation title: “A Bayesian Model of Sequential Test Allocation for Software Reliability Estimation”

Additional Information

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Websites:

• My Company

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Interests:

software security, security testing, secure development, security metrics, security education

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Groups:

•    RSA Conference
•    SecurityMetrics

Herbert Hugh Thompson, Ph.D.’s Honors:

Awarded “Top 5 Influential Thinkers in IT Security” in 2006 by SC Magazine.
Designated a “Most Valued Professional (MVP)” for Software Security by Microsoft (2005, 2006, 2007).

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