Paco Hope

London, England

Software Security Consultant

Areas of Expertise:

Web Security
Software Testing
Online Gambling
Security Testing

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Paco Hope is a Technical Manager with Cigital. His areas of expertise software security, security testing, and casino gaming. He specializes in analyzing the security of software, software systems, and software development processes. Paco frequently speaks at conferences such as the Better Software Conference, STAR East, and STAR West. He conducts training on risk-based security testing, writing security requirements, and software security fundamentals. He can be reached at paco@cigital.com.

Web Security Testing Cookbook
by Paco Hope , Ben Walther
October 2008
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security
by Yanek Korff , Paco Hope , Bruce Potter
March 2005
Print: $49.95
Ebook: $39.99

Paco blogs at:
http://paco.to/

Security Questions. Are You Kidding!?

June 04 2013

I recently signed up for a credit card. When I enrolled in their online account access, they required me to choose a security question. Not only did they give me some choice questions, they gave me example answers. These are just embarassing. This is supposed to PROTECT me? Not only… read more

Writing Good Exam Questions

May 24 2013

I help write lots of “assessment questions”—some are for quizzes after courses, others are just review questions during courses. Some are for industry certifications like the CISSP and CSSLP. Some help teach, others gauge the effectiveness of teaching. I tend to be pretty good at it, so I put together… read more

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