Carsten Eiram comes from a esrever engineering background and is a vulnerability connoisseur during the day with extensive experience in the fields of vulnerability research and Vulnerability Intelligence. At night, he's a binary ninja having successfully stalked, found, and killed many critical vulnerabilities in popular software from major software vendors. Carsten is currently the Chief Security Specialist at Secunia and holds the dual responsibility of developing and managing the Secunia Research unit as well as maintaining close dialogue with software vendors and the security community, thereby ensuring both the quality and integrity of Secunia's work. He is often referred to as the Security Beast, but has yet to manage getting that title on to his business cards. Carsten is a key contributor to the high technical quality and accurateness of the Secunia's Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and one of his responsibilities is to ensure that Secunia continues to be the most respected and trustworthy provider of Vulnerability Intelligence and most active research house. Based on his and his team's research efforts, Frost & Sullivan has presented awards to Secunia in both 2010 and 2011. Carsten is also a regular contributor to the "Threat of the Month" column in SC Magazine, a credited contributor for the "CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors" list, and member of the CVE Editorial Board.