Gary E. McGraw Jr. is an American computer scientist, author, and researcher.

Education

McGraw holds a dual PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation is titled "Letter Spirit: Emergent High-Level Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts."

Career

McGraw was the Vice President of Security Technology at

Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality. Synopsys sup ...

. Before Cigital was acquired by Synopsys, he was Chief Technical Officer at Cigital. He produced the ''Silver Bullet Security Podcast'' for IEEE ''Security & Privacy magazine'' (syndicated by informIT). Gary McGraw serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics of Indiana University. He also serves on the advisory boards of several companies, including Dasient (acquired by Twitter),

Fortify Software Fortify Software, later known as Fortify Inc., is a California-based software security vendor, founded in 2003 and acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010, Micro Focus in 2017, and OpenText in 2023. Fortify offerings included Static application sec ...

(acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Max Financial, Invotas, Wall+Main, Invincea (acquired by Sophos), and Raven White. In the past, Gary McGraw has served on the

IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society (commonly known as the Computer Society or CS) is a technical society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) dedicated to computing, namely the major areas of hardware, software, standards and people ...

Board of Governors.

Books

Gary is an author of many books and over 100

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publications on IT security. *Software Security: Building Security In, *Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (with Greg Hoglund), *Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way (with

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), *Java Security (with Edward Felten), *Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (with Greg Hoglund), *Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers (with Julia H. Allen, Sean J. Barnum, Robert J. Ellison, and Nancy R. Mead) *Software Fault Injection (with Jeffrey M. Voas) *Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code (with Edward Felten),

Notes

References

*Ben Rothke
"Software Security: Building Security In"
''Security Management'' magazine *Radu State
Review of "Software Security: Building Security In by Gary McGraw"
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'' 4(7):44 (2006)
"Software Security : Building Security In"
''Palizine'', Issue #18 February 2006 *Robert Bruen

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magazine), Jan 5, 2006 *Alen Prodan
"Exploiting Software: How to Break Code"
Help Net Security, 21 July 2004 *A. Mariën
Review of "Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw"
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'', 3(4):60 (2005) *Robert Bruen
"Exploiting Software. How to Break Code"
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magazine), January 13, 2004 *Aleksandar Stancin
"Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way"
Help Net Security *Robert Bruen

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magazine), January 9, 2002 *Diomidis Spinellis
"Book review: Building Secure Software: how to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way"
''ACM Computing Reviews'', 43(4): pages 103–104, April 2002.

External links

Gary McGraw's personal home page
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