Sherif Koussa is OWASP Ottawa Chapter Founder and former Leader. In addition to contributing to OWASP Ottawa for over 14 years, Sherif contributed to WebGoat, and OWASP Cheat Sheets. Sherif also helped the SANS and GIAC organizations launch their GSSP-Java and GSSP-NET exams and contributed to a few of their courses. After switching from the software development field to the security field, Sherif took on the mission of supporting developers to shift security left, and ship more secure code organically. Sherif is currently the CEO of Software Secured (www.softwaresecured.com), a leading Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) firm, that helps hundreds of software development teams continuously ship secure code.