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Kenneth van Wyk

IANS Faculty

Expertise

  • Incident Response Operations & Planning
  • Application Security
  • Secure Coding
  • Threat Modeling

Profile

Ken is the President and Principal Consultant of KRvW Associates, LLC, an independent information security consulting company, and a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held executive and senior technologist positions at Tekmark, Para-Protect, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the U.S. Department of Defense, Carnegie Mellon University, and Lehigh University. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, and has presented papers and training for CSI, ISF, USENIX, FIRST, CERT, among others.

Expertise

  • Incident Response Operations & Planning
  • Application Security
  • Secure Coding
  • Threat Modeling

Qualifications

Achievements & Contributions
  • Former Steering Committee and Board of Directors Member for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
  • Co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT®)
  • Project Leader of Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) iGoat project
  • Former Member on the Board of Directors for SecAppDev.org
  • Former Monthly Columnist for Computerworld.com
  • Lead author of Enterprise Software Security: A Confluence of Disciplines (2014)
  • Co-author of Rugged Handbook (2012)
  • Co-author of Secure Coding (2003)
  • Co-author of Incident Response (2001)
Certifications & Credentials
  • Graduate Coursework,Software Engineering – Carnegie Mellon University
  • Graduate Coursework, Computer Science – Lehigh University
  • BSME –Lehigh University

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