John Heasman
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Consultant |
| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Introduction | John Heasman is the VP of Research for NGSSoftware, a UK-headquartered security consultancy with offices in Seattle. NGS carries out sophisticated security assessments for the world's leading software vendors and financial institutions. Heasman is a prolific security researcher having published numerous advisories in enterprise level software including Microsoft Windows, Exchange, Outlook, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, QuickTime, RealPlayer and Java. He has a strong interest in database security and has coauthored The Database Hacker's Handbook (Wiley, 2005) and The Shellcoder's Handbook, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2007) and was technical editor for Professional Rootkits (Wrox, 2007). He is a regular speaker at major security conferences and has presented at Black Hat, Defcon, LayerOne and the Computer Enterprise Incident Conference where he has demonstrated a range of firmware rootkit attacks. |