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Josh Sokol

SimpleRisk
CEO / CISO
Austin, Texas

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Josh Sokol, CISSP, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BS in Computer Science in 2002. Since that time, he has worked for several large companies, including AMD and BearingPoint, spent some time as a military contractor, and recently left a ten year career as the Information Security Program Owner at National Instruments in order to pursue a full-time role as the Creator, CEO, and CISO of the free and open source risk management tool named SimpleRisk.  Josh has spoken on dozens of security topics, including the much-hyped “HTTPSCan Byte Me” talk at Black Hat 2010, and served for four years on the OWASP Global Board of Directors.
Specialties: linux, unix, apache, mysql, oracle application server, tomcat, websphere, weblogic, bea, ibm, web application security, proxies, tokenization, metasploit, vulnerability management, enterprise risk management, compliance (sox & pci), and much more!