Tom Eston is a penetration tester for a Fortune 500 financial services organization. Tom currently serves as the security assessment team lead. Tom began his career over twelve years ago as a systems and network administrator for several large and medium size businesses. He began his career in security by helping form an information security department for a real estate development company.
Tom is actively involved in the security community and focuses his research on the security of social media. He is a contributing author to a social media eBook and has written a Facebook Privacy & Security Guide which is used in several major universities as part of student security awareness programs. Tom is also a security blogger, co-host of the Security Justice podcast and is a frequent speaker at security user groups and conferences. Tom recently gave a talk at Notacon 6 titled "The Rise of the Autobots: Into the Underground of Social Network Bots".