I co-foundedDasient,Inc. to help the world fight cybercrime!
About Neil
Neil Daswani is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Dasient, Inc. , a new Internet security company backed by some of the most influential investors in Silicon Valley. In the past, Neil has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and managerial roles at Google, Stanford University, DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). While at Stanford, Neil co-founded the Stanford Center for Professional Development Software Security Certification Program .
His areas of expertise include security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published extensively in these areas, frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences, and has been granted several U.S. patents.
He received a Ph.D. and a master’s in computer science from Stanford University, and earned a bachelor’s in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.
In his free time Neil enjoys trying new sushi restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys running/jogging whenever he gets the chance.
Publications
Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
teaches new and current software professionals state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques they need to build secure software systems.
"Information Technology is for everyone, not just geeks. But that means security is everyone’s business, as you will discover in the pages of this excellent book!"
Vint Cerf, A Founding Father of the Internet
InformationWeek: The Browser As Attack Vector Adam Ely
August 07, 2010:
Web 2.0 Security Means Fighting Malicious Third-Party Content : Brian Prince
July 26, 2010: "While businesses and enterprises typically have good control over the parts of the sites that they do directly run themselves, they typically do not have as direct control over the software development life-cycle processes or other aspects of security of
Courses
Special Elective
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