Application Security Chief Technology Officer, Thales

David Holmes is the Imperva CTO for application security.  Most recently he was a celebrated Forrester analyst for Zero Trust, SASE, DDoS and network security. In 2021, he awarded Imperva a Leader’s position in the Forrester Wave: DDoS mitigation Solutions. Prior to Forrester, Holmes developed and sold appsec and bot management solutions. Holmes was a software developer for 25 years, starting with C and ending with Python, and still codes though not as often as he would like. Holmes has spoken at RSA (2021, 2019), RSA Europe (2014), the Australian CyberSecurity Conference (2018) and many regional conferences. Holmes studied Engineering Physics and Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder under the legendary professor Evi Nemeth.