Tom Cross

Tom Cross is the CTO of Drawbridge Networks, where he is working to usher in a new era in enterprise network security. Tom was previously Director of Security Research at Lancope, where he worked on network anomaly detection, and Manager of IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force Advanced Research team, where he focused on advancing the state of the art in network intrusion prevention technologies. He is credited with discovering a number of critical security vulnerabilities in enterprise class software and has written papers on collateral damage in cyber conflict, vulnerability disclosure ethics, security issues in Internet routers, securing wireless LANs, and protecting Wikipedia from vandalism. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.