Jeff Williams
Author of the First OWASP Top Ten
The list every compliance regime ended up pointing at
Rating
86Impact score
Domains
Application securityRuntime protectionStandards
Scouting report
Wrote the first OWASP Top Ten and served as the volunteer chair of OWASP from 2003 to 2011, the years in which it went from a mailing list to the reference that PCI DSS and a long line of other standards cite by name. Co-founded Aspect Security and then Contrast Security, arguing for instrumentation inside the running application rather than scanning it from outside.
Curator’s note
One list, and suddenly every auditor knew what SQL injection was.
Sources
- 01OWASP en.wikipedia.org
- 02OWASP Top Ten project owasp.org