Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:54 PM
Akshay Aggarwal
Application Security Development Lifecycle Series
After several requests from customers about information on how enterprise class application security programs are set up, I am writing a series of blogs about my experience helping some large enterprises set up application security teams similar to the ACE team at Microsoft. This series will share lessons learnt at Microsoft IT and other large enterprises.
Application Security Development Lifecycle 1: Understanding your portfolio
Application Security Development Lifecycle 2: Mandatory or not?
Application Security Development Lifecycle 3: Funding Models
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About Akshay Aggarwal
Akshay Aggarwal is a security strategist and researcher. He is currently a Practice Manager for Microsoft Information Security’s ACE Team where he leads the information security consulting practice for North America. He is responsible for securing Microsoft’s ecosystem by developing a robust security practice, incubating new service lines & helping enterprise customers develop world-class IT security strategies.
Previously as a Senior Security Technologist, Akshay was responsible for conducting architecture design, threat modeling, application security assessments and vulnerability research. He helped Fortune 100 clients evaluate the security of their software products and applications.
He has authored several security research papers and been invited to speak at many forums like the RSA Security Conference and Black Hat briefings at Las Vegas.
Akshay holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. There, at the renowned Computer Security Lab, he conducted research on Internet worms and intrusion detection systems.
