JM

Jim Manico

Founder and Secure Coding Educator at Manicode Security

Anahola, Hawaii

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

    (1993 - 1997)

  • Black Hat US 2007 Training

    (2007 - 2007)

  • Secure Internet Presence - LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP)

    (2004 - 2004)

Work Experience

  • Founder, CEO and Application Security Educator

    2014

    At Manicode Security we teach your developers to write secure code. We bring a combination of passion, style and years of research into all of our education offerings. Our education programs are designed for any web developer, architect, security professional or other software development professional who needs to build and maintain secure software.

  • Strategic Technical Advisor

    2023

    Jim assumes to role of strategic technical advisor to help align our #RBVM #PTAAS & #ASM with emerging threats and industry direction.

2023

  • Strategic Technical Advisor

    2023

    As a Strategic Technical Advisor for Akto.io, I leverage cybersecurity expertise to guide the company's API security technology vision and ensure the robustness and resilience of its solutions.

2008

  • OWASP Volunteer, Former OWASP Global Board Member

    2008

    Active OWASP volunteer since 2008. Co-leader and project manager of the OWASP ASVS (Application Security Verification Standard), OWASP Proactive Controls, OWASP Cheatsheet Series, OWASP Java Encoder Project and the OWASP HTML Sanitizer Project. Elected OWASP Global Board Member from January 2013 to May 2016. Helped drive the strategic vision for the organization and continue to serve as an advisor to many OWASP leaders and members.

Aviso Ventures

2022

  • Fund Limited Partner

    2022

    At Aviso Ventures, we invest in companies that make the enterprise smarter, faster, and more secure. We help founders with actionable advice and access to capital, while never forgetting it's their company.

  • Investor and Advisor

    2022

    MergeBase gives companies a way to know where the biggest threats are, running live. MergeBase’s Software Composition Analysis platform manages vulnerabilities and license risk, during coding, building, deployment and running of your applications. It provides developer guidance based on risk, compatibility and popularity. It triggers warnings about vulnerabilities applications running in production including from third-party components and third-party software.

2022

  • Strategic Advisor

    2022

    LunaSec's 0-day Monitoring server automatically finds and helps you mitigate 0-day exploits like Log4Shell. We have a team of dedicated Security Engineers that keep track of the latest exploits and detect them, so you don't have to.

  • Board Member and Advisor

    2022

    10Security was founded by the creators of DefectDojo. We obsess about making security scalable, useful, and actionable.

2021

  • Investor and Advisor

    2021

    KSOC is an event-driven SaaS platform built to automatically remediate Kubernetes security risks and enforce least-privileged access control across distributed cluster infrastructures.

  • Investor, Board Member and Advisor

    2019

    Nucleus is an application security risk tracking platform which helps organizations track entire portfolios of applications and their respective security issues. Nucleus provides integrations with dozens of security tools across the industry so you can have one pane of glass to view and understand the complexities of application security portfolio level risk.