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Crash Override is an early stage application security company founded by Mark Curphey and John Viega in 2022 and headquartered in New York City. Their website can be found at www.crashoverride.com.Then company is funded by BVP and SynVentures. Mark and John have a long history in application security.

Mark was the founder of OWASP in 2002, the largest application security community. He ran the Microsoft Developer Network in the late 2000's before founding SourceClear, the first security software composition analysis company and more recently as co-founders of Crash Override.

John authored the first ever book on security for developers, was the author of one of the first static analysis security testing (SAST) tool called ITS4, the original developer for Mailman and author of a number of books on software security since. John was the Executive Vice President, Products and Engineering at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. He joined BAE Systems through the 2014 acquisition of SilverSky, a cloud security provider funded by Goldman Sachs and Bessemer Ventures. Prior to SilverSky, Viega was at McAfee, where he was CTO for SaaS, and prior to that, McAfee's Chief Security Architect. He currently teaches at NYU, and has previously taught at Virginia Tech. In 2016, he founded Capsule8, which was acquired by Sophos in July, 2021.

Crash Override is solving the problem that computer security professionals are overwhelmed by security alerts and are missing data needed to make informed decisions about what to work on.

The brand is based on the 1995 movie (Hackers) movie, where the main character, Dade Murphy used the Hacker handle Crash Override.