Paul Haas is the lead web application security engineer at Redspin, Inc, where has worked on a variety of research and penetration testing over the past four years with experience in over 100+ infrastructure and security assessment projects. He has a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of California Santa Barbara, and is a former member of the Reliable Software Group where he performed a variety of research into tracing the function calls of Linux binaries, cellular phone worms, the creation of an open source VMware framework for OWASP vulnerabilities, and ViSe, a virtual security testbed used to efficiently study computer attacks and suspect tools as part of a computer crime reconstruction. He is a former winner of the Defcon Capture the Flag contest and enjoys playing Mario Kart in his free time.