James C. Foster

Bio

James C. Foster, Fellow is the Executive Director of Global Product Development for Computer Sciences Corporation where he is responsible for the vision, strategy, development, for CSC managed security services and solutions. Additionally, Foster is currently a contributing Editor at Information Security Magazine and resides on the Mitre OVAL Board of Directors.

Preceding CSC, Foster was the Director of Research and Development for Foundstone Inc. and played a pivotal role in the McAfee acquisition for eight-six million in 2004. While at Foundstone, Foster was responsible for all aspects of product, consulting, and corporate R&D initiatives. Prior to Foundstone, Foster worked for Guardent Inc. (acquired by Verisign for 135 Million in 2003) and an adjunct author at Information Security Magazine(acquired by TechTarget Media), subsequent to working for the Department of Defense.

Foster is a seasoned speaker and has presented throughout North America at conferences, technology forums, security summits, and research symposiums with highlights at the Microsoft Security Summit, Black Hat USA, Black Hat Windows, MIT Research Forum, SANS, MilCon, TechGov, InfoSec World, and the Thomson Conference. He also is commonly asked to comment on pertinent security issues and has been sited in Time, Forbes, Washington Post, USAToday, Information Security Magazine, Baseline, Computer World, Secure Computing, and the MIT Technologist. Foster was invited and resided on the executive panel for the 2005 State of Regulatory Compliance Summit at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Foster is also a well published author with multiple commercial and educational papers; and has authored in over fifteen books. A few examples of Foster's best-sellers include Buffer Overflow Attacks, Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, and Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding.