John Viega (born February 22, 1974) is an American computer security author, researcher and professional.
As an undergraduate, he worked in Randy Pausch's Stage 3 Research Group, as an early contributor to Alice.
[2] While at the University of Virginia, Viega started a popular mailing list for the Dave Matthews Band.
[13] Viega was also the lead author of OWASP's CLASP,[14] a lightweight process for relating software development to security.
[15] Viega is currently the lead developer for the open source software provenance and observability tool, Chalk, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Crash Override.