John Viega

John Viega has authored numerous books on security. Viega is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and is the editor-in-chief for IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, and his technical work in cryptography has been standardized by NIST, the IEEE and IETF. He is currently Executive Vice President for Products at Perimeter eSecurity. Previously, he was at McAfee, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering for the SaaS business unit. He was also McAfee’s Chief Security Architect, where he worked on M&A, and also owned McAfee’s core technologies, such as anti-virus and the SiteAdvisor product. He also founded Secure Software, which was acquired by Fortify, where he was an advisor through the acquisition by Hewlett Packard.