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David Goldsmith is President of Matasano is a leader in internet security. Co-author of the first published i386 stack overflow, David Goldsmith is a respected consultant, trainer, and researcher with over eleven years of experience. David co-founded @stake, managed its critical NYC office, and led Symantec Security Academy. David co-invented firewalking, which reverse-engineers firewall rules from remote firewalls and authored security tools for ISS and Network Associates.

Since 1994, Matasano has been finding roles in the first security research labs, discovered new classes of vulnerabilities, secured operating systems, and shipped large software projects. Matasano has been behind some of the first breaks in SAN technology, virtualization, and financial protocols. Their work has been featured in Network World, eWeek, Forbes, Macworld, Wired, and the Washington Post, and at conferences ranging from Black Hat to Gartner.