About me
Adam Shostack is a leading expert on threat modeling. He has decades of experience delivering security. His experience ranges across the business world from founding startups to nearly a decade at Microsoft. His accomplishments include: Helped create the CVE. Now an Emeritus member of the Advisory Board; Fixed Autorun for hundreds of millions of system; Led 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 and Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars. Shostack serves as a member of the Blackhat Review Board, 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.
