Paul Maher
Hi, my name is Paul Maher and I am a Technical Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Team at Microsoft. My focus is in two key areas: Microsoft's next generation technologies and Application Security. Prior to joining Microsoft, I was involved in industry working on several large-scale enterprise systems, all utilising a wealth of Microsoft technologies.

I am one of the collaborators on this developer focused security site. We set ourselves three main goals when creating the site: first, centralise useful information about security aimed at the application developer; second, help raise awareness of Application Security vulnerabilities; and third, increase your knowledge of and around Application Security – so you can write more secure code!

Please see introductions from the other website collaborators below:

• Paul's Blog
• Tales of an Evangelist

Marcus Perryman
Marcus Perryman has worked at Microsoft for eight years in various developer roles including internal project development, Product Support Services, as an Application Developer Consultant and now as a Developer Evangelist in the Community team providing advice, direction, best practice and other information to developer communities throughout the UK. For a number of years now Marcus has focused on the needs of developers producing mobile solutions on Pocket PC and Smartphone to sate his desire for small shiny objects!

• Mobile Security

Joe Stagner
Joe joined Microsoft in 2001 as a Technical Evangelist and is now a Developer Community Champion with the Microsoft MSDN Team. His development experiences have afforded him the opportunity to create commercial software applications across a wide diversity of technical platforms from Mainframes, through UNIX and Linux, to Microsoft Technologies on the Intel and Mobile computing platforms. In recent years, Joe has been focused on Highly-Performant, Geoscalable, web application architectures, multi-platform interoperability, and primarily writing secure code.

• Joe's Blog
• Joe Stagner's Blackbelt Series

Alex Mackman
Alex Mackman is a Principal Technologist at CM Group Ltd., www.cm-group.co.uk where he creates developer-focused courseware and technical content. Alex has 15 years experience in the software development industry and has designed, created and delivered training and consultancy on many aspects of Windows software development. He has spent the majority of the last four years working with the Microsoft patterns & practices team developing .NET application security guidance. You can contact Alex at alexm@cm-consulting.com

• Patterns & Practices Security Focus

Ian Moulster
I’m Ian Moulster, and I’m the Product Manager responsible for the .NET Platform at Microsoft in the UK. I would like to achieve two things in relation to developer security: (1) Make sure you have as much information as possible to allow you to write secure code and as a consequence, (2) have less vulnerabilities out there that could easily be avoided. And my hope is that this site will get us closer to both of those goals.

As for the pictures – my mother hates this caricature of me, which is quite scary as it’s a pretty good likeness. Not sure what that says but I’m not going to let it keep me awake at night. Anyhow, keep an eye on the Microsoft UK events page and hopefully you’ll be able to come and meet up with us to compare the pictures to reality!