Matt Tesauro

Matt Tesauro is currently the Team Lead of Enterprise Cyber Security for Rackspace and has worked in web application development and security since 2000. He has worn many different hats, from developer to DBA to System Administrator to Penetration Tester. Matt also taught graduate and undergraduate classes on web application development and XML at Texas A&M University. Previously, he was focused on application security risk assessment consulting as well as building an application security program at Texas Education Agency. Outside work, he is the project lead for the OWASP Live CD / WTE, a member of the OWASP Foundation board, and part of the Austin OWASP chapter leadership. Matt Tesauro has a B.S. in Economics and a M.S in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. He is also has the CISSP, CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), and Linux+ certifications. Matt has taught both the undergraduate and graduate level courses at Texas A&M University in the Management and Information Systems department (MIS). Beside the teaching at Texas A&M University, Matt has taugh security courses internally, for external clients and commercially at conferences and Fortune 500 financial institutions.  He is also an active industry speaker and has spoken internationally at various industry events such as:

• Multiple OWASP, ISSA, ISACA chapter meeting presentations around the United States
• AppSec US 2009, AppSec EU 2009, AppSec Brazil 2009, AppSec Academia 2009 
• DHS Software Assurance Workshop March 2009 & March of 2010
• AppSec US 2010, TRISC Conference 2010, LASCON 2010
• SC Magazine eSymposium on Application Security March 2010
• B-Sides Austin 2011 
• Agile Austin 2011