Marco Morana

Bio -
 * Marco Morana serves as one of the leaders of OWASP organization where he is actively involved in evangelize on web application security through presentations at local chapter meetings in USA as well as internationally. Besides being the OWASP Cincinnati chapter lead, Marco also actively contributed to OWASP projects such as the application threat modeling methodology of the secure coding guide and the introduction to the security testing methodology of the security testing guide. Besides contributing to OWASP, Marco works as Technology Information Security Officer for a large financial organization in North America with responsibilities in the definition of the organization web application security standards, management of application security assessments during the SDLC, threat analysis and training of software developers, project managers and architects on different topics related to application security. Marco research work on application and software security is widely published on several magazines such as In-secure magazine,Secure Enterprise, ISSA Journal and the C/C++ Users journal.  Marco's work is referred in DHS Software Security Assurance Marco is currently working on co-authoring a book on Application Threat Modeling. Marco’s ideas and strategies for writing secure software are posted on his blog: http://securesoftware.blogspot.com