Tom currently leads the Public Sector technical team at ExtraHop Networks as Director of Systems Engineering. He has spent most of his 20-year career looking at networks, protocols, and packets in one way or another. Tom has a passion for utilizing data-driven techniques to solve the complex problems faced by modern IT practitioners. When he’s not working with ExtraHop’s expansive customer base, he is deeply involved in developing and defining automated techniques for threat detection, and currently holds two patents related to passive network detection techniques. Tom was an early responder to Wannacry and wrote the award-winning Ransomware Module for ExtraHop. Tom resides in Houston, TX along with his wife and three daughters. He remains actively involved with his alma mater Texas A&M (Electrical Engineering), and can be found most weekends cheering his Aggies on to victory.
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