John Viega

John Viega is a leader in IT security with a track record of launching and exiting successful companies in the cybersecurity space (Silversky, Stonewall Software).

Currently Executive Vice President at BAE Systems, John is responsible for Product Management and Engineering for a full suite of enterprise security solutions. Previously, John held senior positions at McAfee; as CTO of SaaS and Chief Security Architect.

John is the co-author of six books on security, The Myths of Security (O'Reilly, 2009), Beautiful Security (O'Reilly, 2009), Building Secure Software (Addison Wesley, 2001), Network Security with OpenSSL (O’Reilly, 2002), The Secure Programming Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2003), and The 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security (McGraw Hill, 2005).

John is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU Poly. He is the former editor-in-chief for IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. His research areas have included application security, cryptography, programming languages and usability. He co-developed GCM, a mode of operation for block ciphers such as AES, which has been standardized by NIST, the IEEE and the IETF. He is also the original author of Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager.