User:Brennan

Tom Brennan

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Brennan started with technology in 1986 when 8-bit and CP/M was cool <grin>. With over a decade of hands-on experiences and agnostic accomplishments such as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), National Security Agency, INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (NSA-IAM), Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). In 2007 Brennan was appointed by his peers to the global board of directors of the OWASP Foundation (www.owasp.org) as a guide for over 21,000 individuals across 160 chapters worldwide. He and continues to lead the OWASP New York / New Jersey chapter with a local membership in excess of 1100, as Chapter President that he started in 2004 after a tenure with the FBI Infragard program. He is a father of 4 great kids and is a frequent and entertaining speaker at information security conferences across the OSI model.

In his past he had co-founded a niche Critical Infrastructure services provider that catered to protection of U.S. critical infrastructures with red-team services and has led teams by example since serving with the United States Marines 2nd AAV BN, 2nd Mar Div., during Gulf War I Era. Today he works for WhiteHat Security as a security evangelist and partner liaison.

Where I am speaking for OWASP around the world. To see my wiki contributions, click here for my LinkedIn profile Click Here.

OWASP accomplishments:
- Redefined governance model
- Establishment of Global Committees as regional voices
- Defined Ethics and Principals
- Assisted with Chapter Leader Handbook
- OWASP APPSEC 2008, NYC primary event organizer
- Led OWASP Membership committee resulting in a Membership Model redesign
- Contributor to the OWASP Web Application Security Testing Guide
- Speaker/Trainer for before the United Nations, FBI Infragard, Software Assurance Forum, Shmoocon, ISSA, ISACA, InfoSecurity and Infragard
- Runs the OWASP LinkedIN Group join now click @ http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36874
- OWASP RFQ project

You can always reach Tom the human way #973-506-9303 or via email at tomb(at)owasp.org