Ksenia Peguero

Ksenia Peguero, is a senior research manager at Black Duck, where she is managing the R&D team for the Rapid Scan Static engine, the next gen approach to SAST. Her research expertise ranges from security of web stack, to mobile languages, to cloud environments, and infrastructure as code. Before diving into research and engineering, Ksenia had a consulting career in a variety of application security practices including penetration testing, threat modeling, code review, and static analysis tool design, customization, and deployment. During her decade in application security, Ksenia has established and evolved secure coding guidance and practices for many firms, developed and delivered numerous software security trainings, and presented at conferences around the world, such as RSA and OWASP AppSec Global. Ksenia holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Washington University.