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DR. HERBERT H. THOMPSON is director of security technology at Security Innovation (www.sisecure.com). He is coauthor of How to Break Software Security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and is the author of more than 40 academic and industrial papers on software security in publications such as Dr. Dobbs Journal, IEEE Security and Privacy, Journal of Information and Software Technology and ACM Queue. Thompson earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology. At Security Innovation, he leads contract penetration-testing teams for some of the world's largest software companies and is principal investigator on several grants from the U.S. Department of Defense.
For additional information see the ACM Digital Library Author Page for: Herbert H Thompson