Arian Evans is a 14-year veteran of the software-security industry, with deep expertise in information security, financial-services software development, and systems architecture.

As VP of Product Strategy he is responsible for ensuring WhiteHat testing technology stays ahead of both the bad guys and new technology. In this role he draws on his previous seven years experience at WhiteHat Security as VP of Operations, where he was responsible for service-delivery and building the company¹s acclaimed Threat Research Center and R&D teams, customer support; and expanding the company¹s flagship Sentinel platform from 130 to more than 20,000 applications under assessment.

In his career, Evans has created several pioneering methodologies for dynamic testing of Web applications, source code review, and database configuration and analysis. He has also worked on global projects for the Center for Internet Security, NIST, the U.S. FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and incident-response/forensics for many large commercial organizations.

Evans is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Black Hat and OWASP and has researched and published zero-day attack-techniques, and vulnerabilities in widely-deployed products from vendors such as Cisco and Nokia.