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Matias Madou

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Matias Madou

Matias Madou is the CTO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior. Matias is a researcher and developer with more than 15 years of hands-on software security experience. He has developed solutions for companies such as HP Fortify and his own company Sensei Security. Over his career, Matias has led multiple application security research projects which have led to commercial products and boasts over 10 patents under his belt. When he is away from his desk, Matias has served as an instructor for advanced application security training courses and regularly speaks at global conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat, DefCon, BSIMM, OWASP AppSec and BruCon. Matias holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application.

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What Developers Need for Software Security Success

Given today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations and businesses in every sector now have a critical need to produce secure software. Criminal gangs, professional attackers and hostile nation-states are employing advanced tactics designed to exploit any vulnerabilities in programs, applications, networks and even raw code. Attackers are constantly finding new ways to bypass even the most […]

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Two-Part Training Required for Developers to Slay the Security Beast

Developers’ defensive qualities are only as good as the training they receive The playing field between the heroes and villains in cybersecurity is notoriously unfair. Sensitive data is the new gold, and attackers adapt quickly to circumvent defenses, exploiting security bugs large and small for potential paydirt. The volume of code being produced is too […]

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What Developers Really Think About Pentesting

A developer in their natural habitat is often spotted in a state of deep concentration, coding awesome features to tight deadlines. Feature-building is often our favorite part of the job, and really, it’s the fundamental outcome of the software development life cycle (SDLC). However, as we have discussed before, many of us are still prioritizing […]

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ClickShare Vulnerabilities May Have Been Patched, But They Mask a Much Bigger Problem

I think we can all recall a time in recent memory where, in a meeting or at a conference, someone has had issues with presentation technology. It happens so often that there is almost an expectation of a clunky experience, at least initially. It stands as no surprise, then, that ClickShare’s seamless app was immediately […]

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