Jim Manico
Founder of Manicode Security
Anahola, Hawaii
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, CEO and Application Security Educator
2014 - Current
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.
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.
Akto is a platform for securing APIs and assists in quickly discovering APIs, running tests, and identifying business logic weaknesses.
Raised $4,500,000.00 from Green D Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Accel, Milin Desai, Renaud Deraison, Akshay Kothari and Accel.
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.
The Open Web Application Security Project is a non-profit organization focused on improving the security of software.
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.
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.
cyber security, automation, application security, devops, vulnerability asssessments
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.
Nucleus Security is an automated vulnerability management solution that speeds up vulnerability response and application security.
Raised $36,398,347.00 from Dcode Capital.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
1993 - 1997