Window Snyder’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story
By Andrew Henderson
| Intro | Mozilla chief security person |
| Is | Engineer Computer scientist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Engineering Technology Science |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1976 |
| Age: | 44 years |
Window Snyder is Chief Security Officer at Fastly and the former Chief Security Something-Or-Other (a tongue-in-cheek Chief Security Officer title) at Mozilla Corporation. She is co-author of Threat Modeling, a standard manual on application security.
Biography
Snyder is the daughter of an American father and a Kenyan-born mother, Wayua Muasa.
Snyder was Director of Security Architecture at @stake and was a senior security strategist at Microsoft in the Security Engineering and Communications organization, most notably as security lead and signoff on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003. She also created the Blue Hat Microsoft Hacker Conference. After leaving Microsoft in 2005, she worked as a principal, founder, and CTO at Matasano Security. She joined Mozilla in September 2006.
On 10 December 2008, Snyder reported in the Mozilla Security blog that she would be leaving Mozilla Corporation at the end of the year. On 1 March 2010, Snyder began work at Apple Inc.
On 16 June 2015, she was announced as new Chief Security Officer at Fastly, a Content Distribution Network.
