Alex Hoole

Alexander Hoole is a Principal Security Researcher at Fortify Software, an HP company. Hoole has a passion for understanding software architecture and how security dependencies permeate systems. He holds a MA.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Victoria where he is also nearing completion of his Ph.D. in Software Engineering with a focus on runtime verification of security vulnerability exploitation. Before joining Fortify, he spent more than a decade dividing his time between academic security research, industry teaching and development spanning a wide range of topics including operating system internals, device driver implementation and application development.