Ryan Barnett is a Principal Security Researcher on Akamai's Threat Research Team where he focuses on web application attack analysis and research for Kona security solutions. In addition to working with Akamai, he also leads the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS), Distributed Web Honeypots and Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) Projects. Mr. Barnett is a frequent speaker at security industry conferences such as Blackhat and has also authored two web security books: Preventing Web Attacks with Apache and the Web Application Defender's Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Protecting Users.
