Alex Meisel is the CTO and co-founder of Art of Defence, where he is responsible for product development, professional services and support. His leadership has focused the company exclusively on providing comprehensive web application security technology from source code analysis to development tools to total shielding, on any scale. Art of Defence´s flagship distributed web application firewall technology is the most flexible on the market today, available as a SaaS, software plug-ins virtual appliance, hardware appliance or as standalone software solution.

Mr. Meisel is heavily involved with OWASP and is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance. Prior to Art of Defence, he held prominent technology roles in companies such asLINX (London Internet Exchange), Zeus Technologies and ImagExpo - SPX Corp.

Contributions

• Article: Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing v2 -
  December 2009
  This is the second version of the Cloud Security Alliance's initial report, outlining areas of concern and guidance for organizations adopting cloud computing. The intention is to provide security practitioners with a comprehensive roadmap for being proactive in developing positive and secure relationships with cloud providers. Much of this guidance is also quite relevant to the cloud provider to improve the quality and security of their service offerings. As with any initial foray, there will certainly be guidance that we could improve upon. We will quite likely modify the number of domains and change the focus of some areas of concern. We seek your help to improve this guidance to make version 2.0 of this document an even better asset to the security practitioner and cloud provider. We will be kicking off numerous online activities and in-person regional events to share our findings and connect with experts to increase our knowledge base.
  
  
• Article: Defining a dWAF to Secure Cloud Applications - July 2009
  Cloud computing was not designed for security, although organizations such as Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) are taking great strides in helping the industry solve the myriad of security problems confronting cloud computing.  The benchmark guidelines established by the CSA in their document, Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing, is a great first step.  This paper is intended to pick up where the CSA guide left off in terms of defining what a distributed web application firewall (dWAF) should look like in order to meet the standards set within the CSA document. It also includes recommendations and practical use-cases.
  
  
• Presentation: Best Practice Guide: Web Application Firewalls - December 2008
  The CTO at Art of Defence, Alex Meisel, gives an introduction to Web Application Firewalls and their benefits and risks at the OWASP Conference.
  
  

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