Gary McGraw

Gary E. McGraw Jr. is an American computer scientist, author, and researcher.

Education McGraw holds a dual PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation is titled "Letter Spirit: Emergent High-Level Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts."

Career McGraw was the Vice President of Security Technology at Synopsys. Before Cigital was acquired by Synopsys, he was Chief Technical Officer at Cigital. He produced the Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine (syndicated by informIT). Gary McGraw serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics of Indiana University. He also serves on the advisory boards of several companies, including Dasient (acquired by Twitter), Fortify Software (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Max Financial, Invotas, Wall+Main, Invincea (acquired by Sophos), and Raven White. In the past, Gary McGraw has served on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors.

Books Gary is an author of many books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications on IT security. Software Security: Building Security In, Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (with Greg Hoglund), Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way (with John Viega), Java Security (with Edward Felten), Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (with Greg Hoglund), Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers (with Julia H. Allen, Sean J. Barnum, Robert J. Ellison, and Nancy R. Mead) Software Fault Injection (with Jeffrey M. Voas) Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code (with Edward Felten),