Fares has global responsibility for the Secure Software Development life Cycle (SSDLC) program at a premier global payments technology company, protecting $6 trillion of global payment card transactions annually and over 1000’s of applications that support a large network of clients on both Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Clients (B2C) interface. Fares has over 12 years of IT and IT security experience, leading highly skilled application security team, research and development, and vulnerability assessment skills, security application architecture and evangelist of the defense in depth methodology. Defining and articulating corporate application security program strategies and posture to corporate top executives, and enforcing corporate vulnerability management and application development methodologies.