Erik Peterson

Erik Peterson is an application and information security veteran and an experienced product management, software marketing and technology professional with over 15 years of experience. Erik most recently was at Hewlett-Packard where he was director of products for the HP Application Security Center.
Prior to Hewlett-Packard Erik Peterson was Vice President of Products at S.P.I. Dynamics which was acquired by HP on September 1st 2007. At S.P.I. Dynamics Erik lead the product management team which defined the companies products and technology strategy.
Before joining S.P.I. Dynamics Erik was the Director of Product Management for the security information and event management company GuardedNet which was acquired by IBM and a Product Manager at application security pioneer Sanctum, Inc. which invented the industries first web application firewall, AppShield which Erik managed during his tenure at Sanctum.
Previous to entering the software industry Erik was an information security and risk management professional within the financial industry at Moody’s Investors Service in New York city and SunTrust banks in Atlanta and an IT professional for the US State Department and the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency.
Erik wrote his first line of C code in 1989, built and ran his first web server in 1994, has written multi-user software that has been used by the UN and US Government, maintained systems for UN Weapons Inspectors, the US Secret Service and the First Lady of the United States. As part of his duties he has compromised the web security of major financial institutions and performed his first web application audit in 1998.

Specialties
Software Lifecycle management, pricing & licensing, Competitive analysis, Strategic Roadmap Planning, Application Security, Information Security, Policy and Compliance, Cloud Computing