Chris Wysopal is currently Veracode's CTO and Co-Founder. He is responsible for the company's software security analysis capabilities. One of the original vulnerability researchers and a member of L0pht Heavy Industries, Chris has testified on Capitol Hill in the US on the subjects of government computer security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software. He published his first advisory in 1996 on parameter tampering in Lotus Domino and has been trying to help people not repeat this type of mistake for 15 years. Back in 1997 he first got paid for hacking someone else's network and later a company's web application. Chris was hooked and has been performing security testing one way or another since.