Management

Security Innovation is guided by professionals who are heralded pioneers, expert practitioners and seasoned veterans in the software security and quality industry.

EDWARD A. ADAMS - President & CEO

Ed Adams is a seasoned software executive with successful leadership experience in various-sized organizations that serve the IT security and quality assurance industries.
As CEO, Mr. Adams applies his information security and business skills, as well as his pervasive industry experience in the Application Quality space, to direct software security experts in helping organizations understand the risks in their software systems and developing programs to mitigate those risks. His organization has delivered high-quality risk solutions to the most recognizable companies in the world including Microsoft, IBM, Visa, Fedex, ING, Sony, Symantec, Nationwide and HP.

Mr. Adams is the founder and business owner of the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc., an association of industry technologists and leaders establishing and defining cross-industry application security guidance and metrics. He is on the board of the National Association of Information Security Groups (NAISG).

No stranger to the podium, Mr. Adams has presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies. He has contributed written and oral commentary for business and technology media outlets such as New England Cable News, CSO Magazine, SC Magazine, CIO Update, Investors Business Daily, Optimize and CFO Magazine. Mr. Adams is in the process of writing a book titled “Information Security Management: Survival Guide”, which will be published by Wiley & Sons and is due out in November 2008. He also maintains a blog with CSO Magazine and is a columnist for CIO Update.

Topics of interest on which Mr. Adams has spoken:

Considering IT security from a contextual standpoint; What security means to [my] business
Assessing risks and vulnerabilities in an enterprise
Marrying security with risk management frameworks
Integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Creating a security-aware organization: effective techniques for training and awareness programs
Measuring/assessing security investments
Understanding the leadership, staffing and ownership of security in an organization

Mr. Adams earned his MBA degree with honors from Boston College and has B.A. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and English Literature from the University of Massachusetts.

FLORENCE MOTTAY - Managing Director, EMEA

Ms. Mottay is a seasoned Business Manager and adept Security Expert. She is responsible for the tight management and successful completion of all client assessment, mitigation and education projects for all of EMEA and parts of the U.S. She serves as the primary point of contact with customers, where she assesses their principal security concerns and assembles an operative plan designed to meet and exceed their stated objectives. She has managed a diversity of client projects ranging from e-commerce applications to biometric authentication devices to embedded systems.

As a leader in the organization, Ms. Mottay is tasked with maintaining a pulse on key application security business and technical drivers. She uses this knowledge to continuously refine Security Innovation’s processes and service offerings to meet our clients’ evolving security needs. Ms. Mottay was the visionary behind TeamMentor, a first-of-a-kind application security best practices knowledge management system that guides software development and test teams through the process of consistently developing secure applications. Her specialty areas include:

Threat Modeling for the Enterprise. Through years of tight interaction with customers, Ms. Mottay has amassed an understanding of the wide array of environments and concerns our clients face. Subsequently, she often leads her team in designing threat models of most critical applications to determine what the imminent threats are to our clients’ applications and enterprise
Customized Enterprise Security Solutions. Our customers are often faced with unique challenges and in need of customized business solutions. Ms. Mottay has taken the lead on several projects and successfully created and implemented new processes, programs and methodologies for our clients including integrating security at the test phase (for Compliance Standards) and the creation of customized training courses specific to a client’s underlying technology and processes.

Prior to joining Security Innovation, Ms. Mottay served as Software Test Engineer for J.D. Edwards. She was also Project Leader at the Center for Software Engineering Research at the Florida Institute of Technology where she worked with Dr. Whittaker, the founder of Security Innovation and world-renowned expert in application security.

Ms. Mottay earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and an M.S. in Software Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

JASON TAYLOR - Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Taylor leads the strategic direction for all technology initiatives and manages world-class development teams for the company's product lines. He has spent his career focused on application development and testing with a primary focus on application security. His unrivaled understanding of application behavior provided the impetus for Security Innovation’s industry pioneering fault injection tool, Holodeck Enterprise Edition, and critical enhancements to the company’s internal testing and development tools. Mr. Taylor was the visionary and designer of the Company’s “Creating Secure Code” methodology and course which has been taught to several of the world's largest technology organizations.

Prior to joining Security Innovation, Mr. Taylor served as test architect, security lead and development manager at Microsoft for various releases of Internet Explorer and Windows. He was the first member of the Internet Explorer security test team, and as the security team lead, he grew it from a solitary operation to the leading application security test team at Microsoft. Later, he built the Test Model Toolkit which became the standard model-based testing tool at Microsoft, winning a Best Practice Award along the way.

Mr. Taylor is an external reviewer, contributor and primary author for Microsoft patterns & practices security guidance. He has published several whitepapers including “Web Services Risk Assessment and Recommendations” and “Security Threats: Risks, Protection & Limitations" for CIO Update and co-authored "Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" with J.D. Meier of Microsoft. Mr. Taylor received his C.S. degree from Montana State University.

PETER JENNEY - VP of Products

Mr. Jenney brings more than 20 years of high-tech experience to Security Innovation where he leads all product management and strategic vision for the firms cutting edge security testing and guidance products. He works closely with Security Innovation's senior management, engineering and business development teams, as well as the company’s business partners to identify new opportunities that will further diversify the Company’s product portfolio and penetrate the security market.

Prior to joining Security Innovation as a full-time employee, Mr. Jenney worked with the Company as a consultant on product planning and development for Holodeck and other internal service tools. Previously, Mr. Jenney served as director of product management & strategy at such companies as Rational Software, Dataware, Ipswitch and Legato, where he successfully rolled out world-class products and managed technology relationships with industry leaders such as Cisco, IBM and Microsoft. Mr. Jenney received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts.

REED AUGLIERE - VP of Operations

Drawing on his more than 20 years of high-tech experience in the security software and professional services industries, Mr. Augliere defines and develops high-end consulting and training solutions for long-term programs with enterprise customers. Mr. Augliere also helps to build and manage Security Innovation’s regulatory compliance line of business.
As the security consulting marketplace continues to mature in the direction of holistic security risk management, Mr. Augliere will lead the adoption of application security best practices into risk management frameworks such as ISO 27002 and the PCI DSS.

Prior to Security Innovation, Mr. Augliere worked for RSA, the security division of EMC, leading the PS integration of RSA’s recently-acquired Tablus data leakage scanning technology. Prior to RSA, Mr. Augliere was employed at Greenwich Technology Partners, Expound, and Compaq Computer Corporation, serving in principal solutions architect and chief technology officer roles. In these roles, Mr. Augliere specialized in application software development, consulting service definition, and the delivery of large projects in financial services, pharmaceutical and consumer verticals, while building trusted advisor relationships with executives on the customer side.

Mr. Augliere is a distinguished academic and author of numerous technical papers. He received an Ed.D. in Organizational Science/Operations Research from Harvard University, a C.E.T. in Digital Electronics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Liberal Arts/Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University.

MICHAEL GAVIN - Security Strategist

Michael is an accomplished security expert with unyielding passion for application security and a history of helping clients implement risk mitigation strategies. His balanced skill set of technical depth and industry intelligence places him at the apex of developing solutions that address the real world problems that end-users face on a daily basis. Michael’s primary responsibility at Security Innovation is defining and executing defensive and mitigation solutions that encompass education, process consultancy, and/or design improvements.

Prior to joining Security Innovation, Michael was a highly respected Senior Analysts at Forrester. While there, he was a member of the Security & Risk Management team covering software security, vulnerability management, and incident response and digital investigations. Michael was responsible for following relevant vendor companies, trends and new technologies and providing analysis to his clients and the press. He also served as a Security Architect with @Stake and as a Security Engineer with Black Dragon Software.

Michael has been quoted in articles for Application Development Trends, CNET, Computer World, Dark Reading, Federal Computer Week, Forbes.com, Information Week, InfoWorld, Internet News, Investors Business Daily, Linux News, Linux World, Network World, Processor, SC Magazine, Software Development Times, Tech News World, Tech Target, and ZD Net. He has also written several intelligence reports including "Trends 2006: Application Security Testing", “Application Firewalls – Are They Worth The Investment?”, “CSI: Cyberspace – Investigations, Evidence, and Forensics In The Digital World" and "To Secure Web Applications, Start With The OWASP Top Ten".

Michael holds an Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown University and an A.B. in Mathematics from Boston College.