Summary: In the eighth episode of The Silver Bullet Podcast, Gary talks with Brian Chess, co-founder and chief scientist of Fortify Software. Brian completed his computer science Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz after several years in the commercial sector. Gary and Brian discuss what commercial developers and academics have to learn from each other, what it’s like to work for a Kleiner-Perkins startup (KP is the VC firm behind familiar names like Google, Amazon, and Sun), and how mystifying it is that some developers are OK with XSS vulnerabilities in their web applications. Matt Bishop’s Computer Security: Art and Science (mentioned again!) Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Brian as a wee lad
