Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Butler to discuss his perspective on the ISO Cologne meeting and Secure Coding.

Matthew Butler is a security researcher who has been using C++ professionally since 1990. He has spent the past three decades as a systems architect and software engineer developing systems for network security, law enforcement and national defense. He primarily works in signals intelligence and security on platforms ranging from embedded micro-controllers to FPGAs to large-scale, real-time platforms.

He is on the staff of both CppCon and C++Now as well as a member of the C++ Standards Committee. He spends most of his time in EWG, SG12 (Undefined Behavior and Vulnerabilities), SG14 (Low Latency) and, now, SG21 (Contracts). He is also a member of WG23 (Programming Language Vulnerabilities).

He prefers the role of predator when dealing with hackers and lives in the Rocky Mountains with his wife and daughter.

News * What happened to C++20 Contracts? * Fixing C++ with epochs * Child Care at CppCon

Matt Butler * Matt Butler's Blog

Links * CppCon 2018: Matthew Butler "Secure Coding Best Practices: Your First Line is the Last Line of Defense" * C++Now 2019: Matthew Butler "Secure Coding Best Practices - Threat Hunting" * P1705 - Enumerating Undefined Behavior

Sponsors * Errors that static code analysis does not find because it is not used * PVS-Studio in the Clouds - Running the Analysis on Travis CI

Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus