Welcome to
The Purple Book

About The Book

Top security leaders share their perspectives, best practices, and case studies in a growing compendium of insights that professionals can put to daily use. Furthering knowledge of the biggest roadblocks to software, application, and product security, The Purple Book of Software Security is an ever-evolving resource shared freely with the security industry at large.

The goal: help organizations simplify software security while staying protected and compliant. As a cornerstone of our mission to democratize software security, The Purple Book exists to help you solve persistent challenges and inspire secure business and software development practices across your organization.

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Coauthors of the Purple Book

Shaun Khalfan
SVP, CISO, PayPal
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Les Correia
Cybersecurity Advisor,
CICL - The Center For Innovation Commercialization LLC
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Cassie Crossley
VP, Supply Chain Security, Cybersecurity & Product Security Office
Schneider Electric
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Vijay Jajoo
Tech Industry Lead, KPMG
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Jyothi Charyulu
Director, Fidelity Investments
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Karthik Swarnam
Chief Security and Trust Officer, ArmorCode
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Jimmie Lee
Founder, JLEE.com
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Dr. Koushik Sen
Professor at UC Berkeley,
Software Engineering
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Teza Mukkavilli
CIO & CISO, Tekion Corp
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Gary Hayslip
CISO, Softbank Investment Advisers, “The Vision Fund”
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Vandana Verma
Security Relations Leader, Snyk; Global Board of Directors, OWASP
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Upendra  Mardikar
EVP, CISO, TIAA
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Deep Kapadia
VP of Engineering, Ro
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Mithun Rajoor
Head of Application & Infrastructure Security (AIS)
S&P Global
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Nikhil Gupta
Founder & CEO, ArmorCode
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Sean Davis
Founder, Stealth Startup
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Poornaprajna Udupi
Co-Founder and CTO,
Vinyl Equity
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Mark Lambert
Chief Product Officer, ArmorCode
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Piyoush Sharma
Head of Data & Product Security, Aledade, Inc.
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Valmiki Mukherjee
CEO & Founder, Cybrize
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Julie Tsai
Board Member, Bay Area CSO Council
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Pavi Ramamurthy
CISO & Security Evangelist, Blackhawk Network
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Dhawal Thakker
Principal - Cyber Risk - National Leader - Governance Risk & Compliance
RSM US LLP
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David M'Raihi
Chief Product Security Officer, CARIAD
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Robert Rodriguez
Chairman and Founder, SINET
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Arvin Bansal
CISO, C&S Wholesale Grocers
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Jonathan Dambrot
CEO, Cranium AI, Inc.
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David Truong
Senior Principal Research Engineer, iTron
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Munish Gupta
GDS Digital Risk Regions Leader, EY
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Anshu Gupta
Investor, Silicon Valley CISO Investments
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Adrian Peters
Managing Director, CISO, Vista Equity Partners
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Sangy Vatsa
EVP, Global Head of Merchant Technology, Global Payments Inc.
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