Ryan C. Barnett is renowned in the web application security industry for his unique expertise. After a decade of experience defending government and commercial websites, Ryan joined Trustwave SpiderLabs research team. He specializes in application defense research and leads the open source ModSecurity web application firewall project.
In addition to his commercial work at Trustwave, Ryan is also an active contributor to many community-based security projects. He leads several Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Projects including: the Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID), Distributed Web Honeypots, and ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS). He is also a contributor on the OWASP Top Ten and AppSensor projects. At the SANS Institute, he is a certified instructor and contributor on the Top 20 Vulnerabilities and CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors projects.
Ryan is regularly consulted by news outlets who are seeking his insights and analysis on emerging web application attacks, trends and defensive techniques. Ryan is a frequent speaker and trainer at key industry events including Black Hat, RSA, SANS AppSec Summit and OWASP AppSecUSA.
Ryan has authored two web security books with titles such as: "Preventing Web Attacks with Apache" from Pearson Publishing and the forthcoming "Web Application Defender's Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Protecting Users" from Wiley Brothers Publishing.
