Contrast Security

Contrast Security was founded by Jeff Williams and Arshan Dabirsiaghi after an extensive research and development effort begun in 2009. Jeff and Arshan are experienced application security veterans. Previously, Jeff founded Aspect Security and was a key part of creating the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) where he served as Global Chair for eight years. Arshan was the director of research at Aspect and led many successful open-source application security projects. Aspect built a highly successful consulting business performing security analysis and testing of over 50 million lines of critical code each year for numerous financial, retail and government organizations. Despite the necessity of this manual process, it simply couldn’t scale to cover the entire application portfolio at most companies. Business requirements for both speed and scale drove the need to build alternative approaches that automated application security work.