Avi Douglen is the founder and CEO at Bounce Security, a boutique consultancy specializing in software security, where he spends a lot of time with development teams of all sizes. He helps them integrate security methodologies and products into their development processes, and often provides training on secure coding and other security topics.

AviD is a prominent security architect and software developer, with decades of experience leading development teams in building secure products and protecting complex systems. His research interests are efficient security engineering, usable security, and scaling enterprise security systems. He is *obsessed* with maximizing value output from security efforts,

Avi is a frequent trainer and speaker at industry conferences, such as OWASP, RSA, BSides, and InfoSec, as well as developer conferences such as O'Reilly, DevSecCon, PyCon, and DevOpsDays. He has trained thousands of developers on security, including secure coding, security architecture, threat modeling, and more.

Avi currently serves on the Board of Advisors at Labs/02, a seed-stage incubator. He is a leader of the OWASP Israel chapter, created the popular AppSecIL security conference, and is co-founder and leader of the OWASP Threat Modeling Project. He also volunteers as a high school mentor, and as a community moderator on https://Security.StackExchange.com/. Recently, Avi co-authored the Threat Modeling Manifesto in order to further spread practical information and encourage more people to threat model.