Gary McGraw

Gary E. McGraw Jr. is an American computer scientist, author, and researcher.

Gary McGraw
Alma mater	PhD, Cognitive Science and Computer Science - Indiana University Bloomington B.A. Philosophy - University of Virginia
Title	Vice President of Security Technology at Synopsys, Inc.

Education

McGraw holds a dual PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. ^[1] His doctoral dissertation is titled "Letter Spirit: Emergent High-Level Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts." ^[2]

Career

McGraw was the Vice President of Security Technology at Synopsys. ^[3] Before Cigital was acquired by Synopsys, he was Chief Technical Officer at Cigital. ^[4] He produced the Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine (syndicated by informIT). ^[5] Gary McGraw serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics of Indiana University. He also serves on the advisory boards of several companies, ^[6] including Dasient (acquired by Twitter), Fortify Software (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Max Financial, Invotas, Wall+Main, Invincea (acquired by Sophos), and Raven White. In the past, Gary McGraw has served on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors.^{[ citation needed ]}

Books

Gary is an author of many books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications on IT security.

• Software Security: Building Security In, ISBN   978-0-321-35670-3
• Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (with Greg Hoglund), ISBN   978-0-201-78695-8
• Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way (with John Viega), ISBN   978-0-321-77495-8
• Java Security (with Edward Felten), ISBN   978-0-471-17842-2
• Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (with Greg Hoglund), ISBN   978-0-13-227191-2
• Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers (with Julia H. Allen, Sean J. Barnum, Robert J. Ellison, and Nancy R. Mead) ISBN   978-0-321-50917-8
• Software Fault Injection (with Jeffrey M. Voas) ISBN   978-0-471-18381-5
• Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code (with Edward Felten), ISBN   978-0-471-31952-8

Notes

1. "The University of Virginia". www.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
2. McGraw, Gary (1995). "Indiana University, Bloomington IN". Indiana University. The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
3. "Software Security Expert Opinion | Gary McGraw" . Retrieved December 21, 2017.
4. Mills, Elinor (2010-05-12). "Gary McGraw on developing secure software (Q&A)". CNet.
5. McGraw, Gary; Migues, Sammy (2010-12-29). "Driving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Software Security". InformIT.
6. "Business". www.cigital.com. Retrieved 2015-10-02.

References

• Ben Rothke. "Software Security: Building Security In", Security Management magazine
• Radu State. Review of "Software Security: Building Security In by Gary McGraw", ACM Queue 4(7):44 (2006)
• "Software Security : Building Security In", Palizine, Issue #18 February 2006
• Robert Bruen. "Software Security. Building Security In", Cipher (IEEE magazine), Jan 5, 2006
• Alen Prodan. "Exploiting Software: How to Break Code", Help Net Security, 21 July 2004
• A. Mariën. Review of "Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw", ACM Queue , 3(4):60 (2005)
• Robert Bruen. "Exploiting Software. How to Break Code", Cipher (IEEE magazine), January 13, 2004
• Aleksandar Stancin. "Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way", Help Net Security
• Robert Bruen. "Building Secure Software. How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way", Cipher (IEEE magazine), January 9, 2002
• Diomidis Spinellis. "Book review: Building Secure Software: how to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way", ACM Computing Reviews, 43(4): pages 103–104, April 2002.

External links

• Gary McGraw's personal home page