Milton Smith 2017 Bio & Why Me?

Milton Smith

About Milton: Milton Smith (California, USA) is a security principal working strategically to secure application and application infrastructure at Oracle. Day to day, Milton develops innovative security tooling and collaborates with staff to improve Oracle product security. Previously, Milton lead security for the Java platform at Oracle. Outside of Oracle, Milton is the project leader for the OWASP DeepViolet and OWASP Security Logging Projects. Previous employers include Yahoo. For more information visit, securitycurmudgeon.com or follow Milton on Twitter(@spoofzu).

Why Me?: Today strong product security claims are less frequently accepted at face value. When product security incidents occur, businesses and governments provide excuses like: “hackers are becoming more sophisticated”, “security is too difficult a problem to solve”, or “everyone has bugs.” However, as the number and severity of security incidents continues to rise, public patience for trite excuses grows weary. The public is increasingly demanding more accountability from business leaders and governments around product security. As leaders transition from an era of plausible deniability to accountability, they will broaden their application security investments and search for solutions. OWASP is uniquely qualified to provide the guidance and resources to defend against the next generation of Internet threats.

As a security principal at Oracle, and previous security leader of the Java platform, I’m no stranger to big challenges. I'm interested to be elected to the OWASP board and help OWASP prepare for its increasingly relevant role throughout industry.