Adam is a leading expert on threat modeling, and a consultant, expert witness, author and game designer. He has decades of experience delivering security. His experience ranges across the business world from founding startups to nearly a decade at Microsoft.

Beyond consulting and training, Shostack serves as an advisor to a variety of companies and academic institutions, and as an Affiliate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

• Threat Modeling
• Risk Management
• DevSecOps
• Secure development
• Entrepreneurship

• Helped create the CVE. Now an Emeritus member of the Advisory Board.
• Fixing Autorun for hundreds of millions of systems
• Lead the design and delivery of the Microsoft SDL Threat Modeling Tool (v3)
• Created the Elevation of Privilege threat modeling game
• Wrote Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
• Co-authored The New School of Information Security

Adam Shostack joined IANS in 2016. As a member of our Faculty, he provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in the following areas: threat modeling, risk management, DevSecOps, secure development, & entrepreneurship.