Alex Smolen is a Software Security Consultant at Foundstone, where he provides security consulting services to clients to help find, fix, and prevent security vulnerabilities in enterprise software. His duties include threat modeling, code review, penetration testing and secure software development lifecycle (S-SDLC) design and implementation. Alex’s speaking engagements include Enterprise Architect Summit 2005 where he spoke on emerging trends in enterprise security as well as Better Software Conference 2005. Alex graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BS in electrical engineering and computer science.
Imagine building a house starting with only a pile of timber and a lump of iron, or making a bowl of spaghetti from a sack of wheat and a bag of tomatoes. The importance of having the right materials makes the idea of building products from scratch seem absurd. Similarly, any software ...Mar. 19, 2006 01:00 PM EST Reads: 71,788 Replies: 2
