Adam Shostack
President at OWASP® Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Shostack is a veteran security engineering leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience driving threat modeling, usable security, and secure-by-design practices across startups and Microsoft. As President of Shostack + Associates and an affiliate professor, he delivers high-impact training and tools—he shipped both software and a card game to make threat modeling practical for engineers. A prolific author and conference reviewer, his books and roles at Black Hat, OWASP, and academia reflect deep influence on industry standards (he helped create CVE and drove the Autorun fix at Microsoft). He blends systems architecture, human-centered design, and privacy work, advising accelerators and security product teams while mentoring founders. Known for turning research into tangible developer tools and frameworks, he favors serious games and pragmatic processes to surface security risks early.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Simon's Rock College of BardBard College at Simon's Rock
Github Skills (141)
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commonmark10
elevation10
markdown10
cybersecurity10
owasp10
vulnerabilities10
organize10
privilege10
markup10
threat-modeling10
application-security10
pandoc10
converter10
modeling10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
adamshostack/4QuestionFrame
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
adamshostack/DFD3
Nov 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 18 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years
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