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Paco Hope

Paco Hope
Cigital

A principal consultant for Cigital, Paco Hope has deep experience in the securing of software and systems. His experience covers web applications, online gaming, embedded devices, lotteries, and business-to-business transaction systems. He has worked with small startups and large enterprises in architecture risk analysis, secure code review, penetration testing, and other consulting. Paco serves on (ISC)²'s European Advisory Council and authors questions for the CISSP and CSSLP certifications. Paco is active in the OWASP Mobile Top Ten Risks project; coauthored the Web Security Testing Cookbook, Mastering FreeBSD, and OpenBSD Security; and wrote a chapter of Building Security In.