Recently an executive at HP claimed that his company now employs 9 out of the top 11 security people due to HP’s acquisition of SPI Dynamics:
“Nine out of the world’s top 11 security hackers came to HP through the SPI Dynamics acquisition, he boasts, although it’s not immediately clear who ranked those top 11.”
- Mark Potts, CTO of Software, Hewlett-Packard
Now eWeek has produced a list of the 15 most influential people in security today. Here is the quick non-multimedia version:
- Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team
- Ivan Krstic, One Laptop Per Child
- Chris Paget, IOActive
- Bunnie Huang, Bunnie Studios
- Michal Zalewski, Google
- Window Snyder
- The MOAB Hackers
- Dino Dai Zovi
- Michael Howard, Microsoft
- HD Moore, Metasploit
- Dave Aitel, Immunity
- Bronwen Matthews, Microsoft
- John Pescatore, Gartner
- Rob Thomas and Team Cymru
- Stefan Esser, Hardened PHP Project
I don’t see any SPI Dynamics or HP people on this arguably less biased list. I do see 3 of my former collegues from @stake: Dave Aitel, Dino Dai Zovi, and Window Snyder. Seeing that giants Microsoft and Google only got 2 each on the list and @stake has 3 it lends credence that @stake was the place to be for hard core security people.
Wikipedia has a nice large list of computer security specialists.
