Ed Finkler is a web developer and security researcher at The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University.

He is the creator of the PHPSecInfo auditing tool and the Inspekt input filtering library for PHP. Ed is also an experienced JavaScript developer, and his application Spaz won “Best Community HTML Application” in the 2007 Adobe AIR Developer Derby.

His work in web runtime platforms on the desktop currently occupies most of his free time.