Steve Lipner is responsible for defining and updating the Security Development Lifecycle and has pioneered numerous security techniques. Lipner is coauthor with Michael Howard of The Security Development Lifecycle (Microsoft Press, 2006) and is named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two pending applications in the field of computer and network security. He has authored numerous professional papers and conference presentations, and served on several National Research Council committees. He served two terms – a total of more than ten years – on the United States Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and its predecessor.
Darren Reed is the author and software maintainer of IP Filter (commonly referred to as ipf) which is an open source software package that provides firewall services and network address translation (NAT) for UNIX-like operating systems. He got a fight with Theo de Raadt over something as inane as his license not allowing for OpenBSD to modify without authorization, and redistribute at will, thus sending Theo off the handle. Theo subsequently removed IPF, with no other tool available in its stead, and Darren had to create his own OpenBSD with IPF distribution.)
Deviant Ollam is a security auditor and penetration testing consultant from The CORE Group. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the US division of TOOOL, The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers. Every year at DEFCON and ShmooCon Deviant runs the Lockpick Village, and he has conducted physical security training sessions for Black Hat, DeepSec, ToorCon, HackCon, ShakaCon, HackInTheBox, ekoparty, AusCERT, GovCERT, CONFidence, the FBI, the NSA, DARPA, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Dave Porcello is the CEO and Technical Lead of Pwnie Express, a company known for producing the 1st ever commercial penetration testing drop box platform and for incorporating cyber-security toolboxes of over one hundred security service providers, several Fortune 50 companies and various federal agencies.
Poul-Henning Kamp is the lead architect and developer for the open source Varnish cache project, an HTTP accelerator. He is responsible for the widely used MD5 password hash algorithm, a vast quantity of systems code, including the FreeBSD GEOM storage layer, GBDE cryptographic storage transform, part of the UFS2 file system implementation, FreeBSD Jails, malloc library and the NTP timecounters code.
Ajin Abraham is an Information Security Researcher from India who is the creator of MobSF, nodejsscan, Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework and other tools. He is the administrator of Kerala Cyber Force, a website dedicated to promote free Information Security education. He has disclosed vulnerabilities in different websites.
Jean David Ichbiah is a French computer scientist who is known as the inventor of the Ada programming language. He had previously designed an experimental system implementation language called LIS (1972–1974), based on Pascal and Simula (in fact, he had been chairman of the Simula User's Group), and was one of the founding members of IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages. He designed the keyboard layout FITALY which is specifically optimized for stylus or touch-based input, and subsequently started the Textware company, which sells text entry software for PDAs and tablet PCs, as well as text-entry software for medical transcription on PCs.
Guido van Rossum was born on January 31, 1956 in Netherlands. He is known as the creator of the Python programming language and the "Benevolent Dictator For Life" (BDFL) of the Python community. In December 2005, he was hired by Google in Mountain View, CA.
Cody Brocious is a Mozilla software developer, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. He demonstrated on how to access Onity programmable key card locks in hotel rooms by using his Arduino. In his demonstration, he gained access to 4 million hotel rooms.
Robert Wesley McGrew is a Mississippi computer-security researcher who discovered screenshots of the HVAC access online which was done by GhostExodus of the Electronik Tribulation Army and then tipped off the FBI. After the arrest of GhostExodus, Wesley McGrew was harassed (cyber bullied) by the three members of the Electronik Tribulation Army which according to him, "they set up website in my name to pose as me, and put up embarrassing content or things they thought would embarrass me, including a call-to-action to buy sex toys, and fake pornographic images". He also suffered DDoS attacks to his website, and threatening e-mails, phone calls and IMs, according to the FBI.