Steve Orrin
Biography:
Steve Orrin is CTO for Sarvega, Inc. and is responsible for the product strategy and direction. Steve was formerly Vice President of Security Solutions for Watchfire, Inc. and was responsible for the product strategy and direction of Watchfire's web application security and privacy software product lines. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software, and came to Watchfire through an acquisition of Sanctum. Prior to Sanctum, Steve was CTO and co-founder of LockStar Inc. LockStar provided enterprises with the means to secure and XML/WebService enable legacy and enterprise applications for e-business. Steve joined LockStar from SynData Technologies, Inc. where he was CTO and chief architect of its desktop email and file security product and also managed the technology and software development team. Steve has spoken several times at RSA, ISACA conferences, N+I, TEPR, Vanguard and SANS conferences. Most recently he presented at Best's Review E-Fusion, and NGN. Steve was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and has developed several patent-pending technologies covering user authentication, secure data access and steganography and has one issued patent in steganography. Steve is a member of the Network and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA), the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), SEI (Software Engineering Institute), and is a co-Founder of WASC (Web Application Security Consortium). He participates in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
