Pravir Chandra

Pravir Chandra is Director of Strategic Services at Fortify where he works with clients to build and optimize software security assurance programs. Pravir is widely recognized in the industry for his expertise in software security and code analysis, and also for his ability to apply technical knowledge strategically from a business perspective. Prior to Fortify, he was affiliated with Cigital as a Principal Consultant where he led large software security programs at Fortune 500 companies. Pravir was also Co-Founder and Chief Security Architect at Secure Software, Inc. before the company was acquired by Fortify Software. His book, Network Security with OpenSSL is a popular reference on protecting software applications through cryptography and secure communications. His varied special project experience includes creating and leading the Open Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) project with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation. Also, Pravir currently serves as a Member of the OWASP Global Projects Committee.


Posts by Pravir Chandra

Todo en español

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

BSIMM activities mapped to SAMM

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

OpenSAMM Overview Presentation in French

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Resources posted and SAMM in XML

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

OpenSAMM 1.0 in Japanese

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Gartner talks about OpenSAMM

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Browse the model online

Monday, May 4th, 2009

SAMM helps with real software development

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

SEP-001 Extract content into editable format

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The SAMM enhancement process

Sunday, April 26th, 2009