Gary McGraw

Gary McGraw is an American computer scientist, author, and researcher.

McGraw holds a dual PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University. and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation is titled "Letter Spirit: Emergent High-Level Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts."

McGraw is the Vice President of Security Technology at Synopsys. Before Cigital was acquired by Synopsys, he was Chief Technical Officer at Cigital. Currently, he produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine (syndicated by informIT).Gary McGraw serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics of Indiana University. He also serves on the advisory boards of several companies, including Dasient (acquired by Twitter), Fortify Software (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Max Financial, Invotas, Wall+Main, Invincea, and Raven White. In the past, Gary McGraw has served on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors.

Gary is an author of many books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications on IT security.

• Software Security: Building Security In, ISBN 978-0-321-35670-3
• Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (with Greg Hoglund), ISBN 978-0-201-78695-8
• Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way (with John Viega), ISBN 978-0-321-77495-8
• Java Security (with Edward Felten), ISBN 978-0-471-17842-2
• Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (with Greg Hoglund), ISBN 978-0-13-227191-2
• Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers (with Julia H. Allen, Sean J. Barnum, Robert J. Ellison, and Nancy R. Mead) ISBN 978-0-321-50917-8
• Software Fault Injection (with Jeffrey M. Voas) ISBN 978-0-471-18381-5
• Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code (with Edward Felten), ISBN 978-0-471-31952-8