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David Endler

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Senior Director, DVLabs


David Endler is the senior director of security research for TippingPoint, where his teams oversee product security testing, the Zero Day Initiative, the Digital Vaccine service, and vulnerability and malware research. While at TippingPoint, David founded an industry-wide group called the Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) in 2005. David is currently the chairman of VOIPSA, which boasts over 100 members from the VoIP vendor, carrier, and security space.

Prior to TippingPoint, David was the security research director at security intelligence firm, iDefense, acquired by VeriSign. While at iDefense, Endler was one of the early contributors to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). He and his team also launched the industry's first commercial vulnerability buying program. Previous to iDefense, David spent many years in security research roles with Xerox Corporation, the National Security Agency, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences and has been quoted and featured in many top publications and media programs including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Wired Magazine, the Washington Post, CNET, Tech TV, and CNN. David has authored numerous articles and papers on computer security and is the co-author of the book Hacking Exposed VoIP.

David graduated summa cum laude from Tulane University where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science.

Appearances:
  • Upcoming: VoIP Threats & Countermeasures
    2008-10-27 RSA Europe 2008
  • Upcoming: IP Telephony Security Threats and Countermeasures
    2008-10-14 VoiceCon Europe
  • What's to Come: The Next Generation of Attacks
    2008-04-08 RSA Conference 2008
  • Top VOIP Security Threats
    2008-03-18 VoiceCon Orlando 2008
  • IP Telephony Security Threats and Countermeasures
    2008-03-17 VoiceCon Orlando 2008
  • IP Telephony Security Threats and Countermeasures
    2007-08-20 VoiceCon Fall
  • VoIP Security
    2007-05-24 Interop
  • VoiP Security: No Silver Bullet
    2007-04-27 Infosecurity Europe
  • IP Telephony Security Threats and Countermeasures
    2007-03-07 VoiceCon Spring
  • Exploiting VoIP Networks
    2007-02-07 RSA
  • Hacking VoIP Exposed
    2006-08-02 Black Hat US
  • Voice over IP (VoIP) Security
    2006-03-17 Managing VoIP Security
  • VoIP Security: Managing Risk
    2006-03-08 Voicecon
  • Voice over IP Security
    2006-02-14 RSA
  • The Top Five VoIP Security Challenges: And What You Can Do About Them
    2005-12-13 Interop New York
  • Security Concerns and VoIP
    2005-09-22 VON
    • Blog Entries
  • Welcome Alex Wheeler
    created 2008-01-16 (0 comments, 2198 views)
  • SANS Top 20 Internet Security Risks of 2007
    created 2007-11-27 (0 comments, 2278 views)
  • DVLabs headed to Vegas
    created 2007-07-30 (0 comments, 2395 views)
  • Happy Birthday ZDI!
    created 2007-07-26 (0 comments, 3438 views)
  • Remembering Five Years of Vulnerability Markets
    created 2007-07-26 (0 comments, 2117 views)
  • Sys Admin Magazine Goes Quietly Into That Good Night
    created 2007-07-16 (0 comments, 3040 views)
  • Hello World
    created 2007-05-01 (0 comments, 2348 views)