Gary McGraw

Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Gary McGraw

Name: Gary McGraw

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

  • American computer scientist and IT (information technology) author.
  • IT security specialist.
  • Producer of the monthly Silver Bullet Security podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.
  • Chief technical officer at Cigital Inc. (software security firm, based in Dulles, VA).

Significant publications

  • Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (2007).
  • Software Security: Building Security In (2006).
  • Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (2004).
  • Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way (2001).
  • Java Security (1996).

Honors and awards

  • Serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics of Indiana University.
  • Served on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors.

Quotes

"Consumers have for a long time had an implicit demand for security that hasn't been made explicit, but I think that's changing. People are sick of having insecure software and sick of having to have to get antivirus software because of all this broken software on their PCs."

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