EXPERIENCE
Thomas Millar joined the TrustedSec Incident Response team with 20 years of system security and digital forensics experience. His areas of focus have been Network Intrusion and Incident Response. Prior to joining the TrustedSec Incident Response team, he began his work in IT field support for PC and Apple Mac platforms and was employed to support the IT needs for a small private university in Northern California. More recently, Thomas also worked as an Incident Response consultant for RSA NetWitness and IBM Emergency Response Services.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Thomas attended Forensics Response training provided by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the U.S. Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy (DCITA). He has had additional education in cyber operations from the U.S. Army for both offensive and defensive efforts at the Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE) in Fort Gordon, GA. He is also a graduate of the Cyberspace Operations Planners Course (COPC), where senior military leaders devise and formulate real-world mission planning, from initial tasking and concept to execution.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA)
• South Bay Amateur Radio Society (SOBARS)
• American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS
Thomas’ work has been published in two (2) IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly journal articles. He was also a contributing author to the Cisco Router and Switch Forensics book by Syngress Publishing. Since joining TrustedSec, Thomas has posted several blog articles on Incident Response and computer forensic subjects and was a co-host for a webinar on business email compromises.

PASSION FOR SECURITY
Thomas has been driven by curiosity from an early age about anything that was locked or obscured. This developed into a keen interest in finding all that can be revealed in computer intrusion examinations and security breaches. Thomas especially enjoys situations that involve Linux host analysis but always leaves room to learn about other systems and platforms.