User:Paul van Woudenberg

Paul is a co-founder of ThinkSmart, a focussed software development shop with a range of experience in web application security. After graduating as an Electronic Engineer, Paul moved into software development as a business analyst and architect in the mid-nineties. He acquired a taste for information security on an early web security project in 1997 when he was part of the team that developed a large SA insurer's first web application security framework. It was on this project that he met Theo, with whom he later founded ThinkSmart. Paul has diverse skills in information security, from writing policies a la ISO27001 to designing transaction authentication processes. Paul is at his happiest professionally when bridging the gap between business and technology. He holds an M.Eng from Stellenbosch University, is a CISSP and CSSLP (ISC2 qualifications) and is a member of OWASP.