Jerry Hoff has decades of experience in technology and security, specializing in application security at an enterprise scale. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and has evaluated the security of applications for some of the largest financial, defense, and commercial organizations in the world. His work has provided deep insight into the evolving threat landscape and the challenges organizations face in securing complex software systems.

As a security entrepreneur, Jerry founded and led a static application security testing startup, which was acquired by WhiteHat Security in 2011. He has been an active member of the security community for nearly twenty years as a lifetime member and long-time volunteer with OWASP.

Jerry has held key leadership roles in global organizations, including serving as the Global Head of Security for Sony Electronics and as a Group Senior Security Architect for NTT. His expertise spans secure software development, application security strategy, and enterprise security architecture.

He now leads Maru Security, a company dedicated to training organizations on secure software development. Maru Security provides developers with up-to-date, code-level security training across a wide range of programming languages. By focusing on practical, hands-on education, Maru Security helps teams integrate robust security practices into their development workflows, ensuring that secure coding becomes a fundamental part of the software development lifecycle.