Paco is a Technical Manager at Cigital. Paco's areas of expertise include software security, security testing, code analysis, embedded systems, and smart cards. Paco has published articles on abuse cases in software design, PKI, and UNIX host security features. He is a prominent instructor and frequent lecturer at conferences like the Software Security Summit, STAR East, and the Better Software Conference. He is also co-author of Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security, published by O'Reilly and Associates. At Cigital, Paco has co-authored standards with MasterCard International governing the use of wireless LAN technology in merchant environments. He has also analyzed architecture and software for lottery systems, mobile phone systems, embedded gaming devices, and smart card applications. Prior to joining Cigital, he served as director of product development for Charlottesville, VA-based Tovaris, Inc. and head systems administrator in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.

Paco majored in Computer Science and English at The College of William and Mary and received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

You can follow some of Paco's interests at his personal blog and at his O'Reilly author page.