Panelist: Steven B. Lipner
Senior Director of Security Engineering Strategy, Trustworthy Computing Security, Microsoft Corporation

Steven B. Lipner is senior director of Security Engineering Strategy at Microsoft Corp where he leads Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team and is responsible for the definition of Microsoft’s SDL and for programs to make the SDL available to organizations beyond Microsoft. He is also responsible for Microsoft’s strategies related to government security evaluations of its products. Lipner is the Microsoft representative on the board of SAFECode and currently chairs the SAFECode board.

Lipner has forty years’ experience in cybersecurity and is named as inventor on twelve U.S. patents and two pending applications in the field of computer and network security. He served two terms on the United States Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Lipner holds S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.