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Neil Daswani
Chief Technology Officer
Neil Daswani is responsible for Dasient’s long-term product vision and
strategy. A highly regarded Internet technology expert, Daswani 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).
Daswani’s 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 is also the author of*Foundations of
Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know*, which 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. While at Stanford, he co-founded the Stanford
Center for Professional Development’s Software Security Certification
Program, which has become an important tool for educating software
programmers, architects, developers, engineers, IT managers, chief
information officers (CIOs), and chief security officers (CSOs) about
security issues and designing secure programs.
Daswani earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with honors with
distinction from Columbia University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in
computer science from Stanford University.
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