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Neil's Upcoming Talks April 17: CMU West Security Seminar, Mountain View, CA
July 4: YSA Conference, Chicago, IL
July 14: Stanford Security Webinar, Stanford, CA
August 11: HostingCon 2009, Washington, DC

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Recent News / Press Mentions

IT School To Watch: Stanford Univ.
"in the process of completing his degree, he [Daswani] helped create an advanced security certification program that Stanford now offers."

AFA Announces Speakers
"Dr. Neil Daswani, a top mind at Google, will address emerging Cyber-threats on the Web including next-generation phishing and how cyber-criminals monetize their cyber-attacks."

Google launches Ad Traffic Quality Center
"Google engineer Neil Daswani and other experts wrote a chapter due to appear in the upcoming book Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses..."

Google Dissects a Clickbot, And Discusses The Cost Of Click Fraud
"...with the publication of this paper, Google appears to be leading by example."

Neil's Recent Talks

June 17: Cisco Nerd Lunch, San Jose, CA
June 18: HP Software Universe, Las Vegas, CA
June 25: OWASP Bay Area Summit, Mountain View, CA
July 21-25: SCPD Advanced Security Program, Stanford, CA
Aug 7: Stanford MS&E 237, Stanford, CA
Aug 27: Technology Management Seminar @ Google
Sept 15: Air and Space Conference, Washington, DC
Oct 24: ISACA - Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, CA
Nov 6: MarkMonitor conference, San Francisco, CA
Nov 12: Security Seminar, Columbia University, New Yor, NY
Jan 8: International Conference on Cyber Security (FBI), Fordham University, New York, NY


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teaches you state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques you need to build secure software systems. Once you're enabled with the techniques covered in this book, you can start to alleviate some of the inherent vulnerabilities that make today's software so susceptible to attack. The book uses web servers and web applications as running examples throughout the book.

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