My interest in security began early in my career when I stumbled across “Writing Secure Code” by Microsoft Press. It was a jarring introduction to security since it revealed how flawed most software was and how little I actually knew in securing my own work. As a software engineer, my focus was always on building software rather than breaking it. Yet, finding my first vulnerability (a query string privilege escalation) was exhilarating. But then came the hard part: how do I fix it? I believe that building good coding habits can lead to more secure code.