Mwende Window Snyder (born 1975), better known as Window Snyder, is an American computer security expert. She has been a top security officer at Square Inc., Apple Inc., Fastly, Intel, and Mozilla Corporation, and was also a senior security strategist at Microsoft. She is co-author of Threat Modeling, a standard manual on application security.
Biography[]
Snyder was born in New Jersey of an American father and a Kenyan-born mother, Wayua Muasa.[1]
Snyder was Director of Security Architecture at @stake and was a senior security strategist at Microsoft in the Security Engineering and Communications organization, most notably as security lead and signoff on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003. After leaving Microsoft in 2005, she worked as a principal, founder, and CTO at Matasano Security. She joined Mozilla in September 2006.[2][3]
On 10 December 2008, Snyder reported in the Mozilla Security blog that she would be leaving Mozilla Corporation at the end of the year. [4] On 1 March 2010, Snyder began work at Apple Inc.[5]
Bibliography[]
- Frank Swiderski and Window Snyder, Threat Modeling (Microsoft Professional) (Microsoft Press, July 14 2004, ISBN 0-7356-1991-3)
References[]
- ↑ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (August 4, 2023). "Meet Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet and billions of devices". TechCrunch.
- ↑ Mozilla taps former Microsoft executive for security strategy (Robert McMillan, Computerworld Security, 6 September 2006)
- ↑ Welcome to Window Snyder! (schrep's blog, 6 September 2006) — Mozilla hiring announcement
- ↑ http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/12/10/leaving-mozilla/
- ↑ http://www.pcworld.com/article/190524/exmozilla_security_chief_takes_job_at_apple.html
External links[]
- dec.net (Snyder's blog)
- Mozilla Security Blog - Window Snyder’s Blog
- Window Snyder's photos (Flickr)
- Security Developer Center: Threat Modeling (microsoft.com)