The Secure Talk Podcast

Chris Wysopal is the Chief Security Evangelist at Veracode, responsible for enhancing the company’s industry presence, advocating robust security practices, and fostering customer and peer relationships. Prior to co-founding Veracode in 2006, Chris was vice president of research and development at security consultancy @stake, which was acquired by Symantec. In the 1990s, Chris was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software. He has testified to the US Congress on the subjects of government security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software.

Chris is a highly influential and sought-after voice in the software security industry. He is the author of “The Art of Software Security Testing” and was instrumental in developing industry guidelines for responsible disclosure of software vulnerabilities. MIT Technology Review wrote in 2019 that Chris “has worked for decades to demand secure technologies from influential tech companies.”

Chris received a BS in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In his free time, Chris enjoys photography and hiking the conservation trails near his home outside Boston.