About the Author

Adam Shostack is a consultant, entrepreneur, technologist, author, and game designer.

He's a member of the Black Hat Review Board, and helped found the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and many other things. He's currently helping a variety of organizations improve their security, and advising startups as a MACH37 Stars Mentor Network. While at Microsoft, he drove the AutoRun fix into Windows Update, was the lead designer of the SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3, and created the Elevation of Privilege game. Adam is the author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security and the co-author of The New School of Information Security.