Adam Shostack- IANS Faculty

Adam Shostack

IANS Faculty

Expertise

  • Threat Modeling
  • Risk Management
  • DevSecOps
  • Secure development
  • Entrepreneurship

Profile

Adam is a leading expert on threat modeling, and a consultant, expert witness, author and game designer. He has decades of experience delivering security. His experience ranges across the business world from founding startups to nearly a decade at Microsoft.

Beyond consulting and training, Shostack serves as an advisor to a variety of companies and academic institutions, and as an Affiliate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

Expertise

  • Threat Modeling
  • Risk Management
  • DevSecOps
  • Secure development
  • Entrepreneurship

Qualifications

Achievements & Contributions
  • Helped create the CVE. Now an Emeritus member of the Advisory Board.
  • Fixing Autorun for hundreds of millions of systems
  • Lead the design and delivery of the Microsoft SDL Threat Modeling Tool (v3)
  • Created the Elevation of Privilege threat modeling game
  • Wrote Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
  • Co-authored The New School of Information Security

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