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This year marked my second trip to Aspen to attend C++Now as an attendee, speaker and member of the conference staff. The theme this year was The Art of Compile Time Programming. The first three…Continue Reading

CppCon 2019 is right around the corner and this year I will be teaching a 2-day post-conference class on software security and writing high-quality, bug-free code. The course is called: Exploiting Modern C++ Writing secure…Continue Reading

After spending the past thirty years on the sidelines of C++, I joined the ISO C++ Standards Committee (AKA WG21) this year. My first official meeting as a member will be in Cologne, Germany July…Continue Reading

Update Both talks are now on the schedule with updated abstracts. “Threat Hunting” will be Wednesday Afternoon 5/8 @ 14:30 “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it” will be Thursday Morning 5/9 @…Continue Reading

Wow, what a ride. I spent Monday and Tuesday of last week at home weathering the storm that would ultimately rain chaos on Denver Wednesday. We didn’t have the 80 MPH winds Denver got, ours…Continue Reading

For those of you in the Denver Metro area, SnowFROC ’19 is the premier applications security conference. The one day conference is held annually at The Cable Center in Denver, CO. This year the conference…Continue Reading

Note: I updated the view counts for the videos mentioned. These are current as of 12/9/18. A friend of mine sent me slack message asking for my opinion of an article he saw on Reddit.…Continue Reading

At CppCon 2018, I was a guest panelist on the Software Security panel along with Matt Miller from Microsoft and Patricia Aas from Turtle Sec. We covered a wide range of topics and got a…Continue Reading

My CppCon talks on Secure Coding Best Practices are now on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2. There is a lot of new material for this talk mostly in the second half dealing with remediation.…Continue Reading