Yekaterina Tsipenyuk O'Neil is the founding member of the Security Research Group at Fortify Software, where she is responsible for performing code audits, identifying and analyzing insecure coding patterns, providing security content for Fortify's software security products, and researching ways to improve the quality of the tools. Outside of the office, Yekaterina spends time working with customers and speaking at conferences. Yekaterina has a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science from the University of California, San Diego. Her thesis work focused on mobile agent security.