Robert Hansen (CISSP) has been working with web application security since the mid 90's, beginning his career in banner click fraud detection at ValueClick. Mr. Hansen has worked for Digital Island, Exodus Communications and Cable & Wireless beginning as a Sr. Security Architect and eventually leading the managed security services product management for intrusion detection (network and host based), content integrity management systems, managed vulnerability management and security event correlation services. He also worked at eBay as a Sr. Global Product Manager of Trust and Safety, focusing on antiphishing, anti-DHTML malware and anti-virus strategies. Mr. Hansen contributes to the security strategy of several startup companies. Mr. Hansen is considered to be one of the top ten web application security experts worldwide. Mr. Hansen is probably best known for founding the web application security lab at ha.ckers.org for authoring content on Dark Reading and for co-authoring "XSS Exploits" by Syngress publishing. Mr. Hansen sits on the NIST.gov Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation group focusing on web application security scanners. He also speaks at Toorcon, Microsoft's Bluehat, Blackhat and Networld+Interop. Mr. Hansen is a member of WASC, IACSP, ISSA, and contributed to the OWASP 2.0 guide. |