James Jardine is a Principal Security Consultant with Secure Ideas, LLC. James has over 12 years of software development experience with over half of that focusing on application security. During his long development history, he has had the opportunity to write both large enterprise applications, thick clients, and mobile applications. He has held many roles including senior developer, software architect, and application security expert. In addition, James is an instructor and author for the SANS Institute. He is also a contributing blogger for the Secure Ideas blog, the Jardine Software blog, and the SANS Appsec blog.

James has performed a number of trainings and presentations for both public events and internal trainings. James teaches the Dev544: Secure Coding in .Net course at the SANS Institute. He is also a contributing author for that course. He has also presented on multiple webcasts, at the Kentucky ISSA InfoSec Summit, and BSides Orlando. In addition, James is the co-host of the Professionally Evil Perspective podcast and the Down the Security Rabbithole podcast.

James is also involved in the open source community. he runs a number of open source projects. These include WCSA; a security analyzer for web.config files, and EventValMod; a tool to modify event validation values in .Net. He is also a contributor to the Laudanum project; a collection of injectable web payloads.

Twitter: @JardineSoftware Email: james -at- secureideas.com