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Tom Brennan

Direct: 973-202-0122

Brennan started with technology in 1986 when 8-bit and CP/M was cool <grin>. After a career ending injury with United States Marines Corps., 2nd AAV BN, 2nd Mar Div., during Gulf War I Era he has dedicated his life to information security. Was elected and served with the FBI Infragard program 2002-2004 and then founded the OWASP New Jersey Chapter that today includes NYC Metro. In 2007 Brennan was appointed by his application security peers to the OWASP Global Board of Directors.

Tom was the managing partner of Proactive Risk that routinely assess technology, people and process used in finance, e-commerce, oil/gas, power generation/transmission, water, and global enterprise networks before joining Trustwave Spiderlabs in 2011. A father of 4 great kids and is a frequent and entertaining speaker at information security conferences and bars around the world ;)

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OWASP accomplishments:
- OWASP Foundation Global Board Member
- OWASP Foundation NY/NJ Chapter President
- Defined OWASP global governance model
- Establishment of global committees as regional voices in 2008
- Defined ethics and principals
- Drafted the chapter leader handbook
- OWASP APPSEC 2008, NYC primary event organizer
- Led OWASP membership committee resulting in current Membership model
- Contributor to the OWASP Web Application Security Testing Guide
- Project Leader:OWASP RFQ project
- Project Leader:HTTP POST TOOL
- Project Leader:OWASP BackOffice CRM
- OWASP.ORG eMail, Groups, Wiki co-sysop for administration
- Speaker/Trainer for before the United Nations, FBI Infragard, Software Assurance Forum, Blackhat, Shmoocon, ISSA, ISACA, InfoSecurity and Infragard relating to application security
- Manager for OWASP LinkedIN Group