Tom Cross is Director of Security Research at Lancope, where he works on advancing the state-of-the-art in network behavioral anomaly detection with netflow. He has over a decade of experience as a computer security researcher and thought leader. He is credited with discovering a number of critical security vulnerabilities in enterprise-class software and has published papers on collateral damage in cyber conflict, vulnerability disclosure ethics, security issues in internet routers, encrypting open wireless networks, and protecting Wikipedia from vandalism. He was previously manager of X-Force Research at IBM Internet Security Systems. He has spoken at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat, DEF CON, CyCon, HOPE, Source Boston, FIRST, and Security B-Sides.