Greg Reber is a pioneer in the information security field and among the first to recognize and address the risks presented by consumer-facing applications.
Greg launched San Francisco-based AsTech Consulting in 1997 with a major financial services company as his primary client. Since then, Greg has built a roster of Fortune 1000 clients including financial services companies and retail service providers – companies that depend on bullet-proof information security solutions.
Greg and other AsTech professionals hold security clearances and currently perform work for the U.S. government.
When Greg is not helping clients, he is playing bass with his band, the Bankrupt Sugar Daddies or driving his Acura NSX at the track. He has an engineering degree from the University of Maryland.
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Last month, application security provider Veracode came out with a study that stated that more than half of all enterprise applications aren't secure. The company tested approximately 2,900 applications over an 18-month period, and 57 percent failed to meet Veracode's "acceptable levels" of security. While this study gained a tremendous amount of traction in the media... it does not focus on the bigger issue... more
In the aviation world safety is paramount. Commercial airlines go to major lengths to make sure that their planes are fully up to code and can fly safely in the air. The risks - loss of human lives - are far too extreme to take any chances. One result of this diligence is the fact that travel by plane is far safer than any other method - nearly 40 times safer per mile than travel by car. While application security risks are not as dire, research shows CSOs fail to use the same stringent level of safety to secure their Internet-facing applications. more
There is a classic scene in the movie, "Jaws," when Roy Scheider gets a look at the size of the shark circling his fishing vessel and says, "We're going to need a bigger boat." The same case can be made for CIOs dealing today with application security. Hackers from all over the world are circling business and government like great whites looking for vulnerabilities in Internet-facing applications. The growth of applications is great for doing business but they have become chum in the water for predators. more
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