Window Snyder
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| Window Snyder | |
| Born | Mwende Window Snyder |
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Mwende Window Snyder is the former Chief Security Something-Or-Other[1] (a tongue-in-cheek Chief Security Officer title) at Mozilla Corporation. She is co-author of Threat Modeling, a standard manual on application security.
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[edit] Biography
Snyder is the daughter of an American father and a Kenyan-born mother, Wayua Muasa.[2]
Snyder was Director of Security Architecture at @stake and was a senior security strategist at Microsoft in the Security Engineering and Communications organization, most notably as security lead and signoff on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003. After leaving Microsoft in 2005, she worked as a principal, founder and CTO at Matasano Security LLC. She joined Mozilla in September 2006.
On 10 December 2008, Snyder reports in the Mozilla Security blog that she will be leaving from Mozilla Corporation at the end of the year. [3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Frank Swiderski and Window Snyder, Threat Modeling (Microsoft Professional) (Microsoft Press, July 14 2004, ISBN 0-7356-1991-3)
[edit] References
- ^ Firing Up Browser Security (Federico Biancuzzi, SecurityFocus, 2008-06-20)
- ^ 'Geek girl' helps keep Mozilla safe in scary times
- ^ http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/12/10/leaving-mozilla/
- Mozilla taps former Microsoft executive for security strategy (Robert McMillan, Computerworld Security, 6 September 2006)
- Welcome to Window Snyder! (schrep's blog, 6 September 2006) — Mozilla hiring announcement
[edit] External links
- dec.net (Snyder's blog)
- Mozilla Security Blog - Window Snyder’s Blog
- Window Snyder's photos (FlickR)
- Security Developer Center: Threat Modeling (microsoft.com)
