Beetle made the transition from Army supply guy to security geek in the mid-90s, inspired by dial-up access to a BBS, Trumpet Winsock, and the L0pht. Beetle is a Senior Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services, a founding member of the AWS Security team, and he is quite passionate about his day job: protecting customers, their data, and AWS itself. Prior to AWS, Beetle was a security engineer with the MITRE Corporation for 11 years, where he prototyped nifty things for the U.S. government and military, such as CTF-like attack labs and first-person shooter gaming interfaces to intrusion detection systems. Beetle wrote the very first check for ShmooCon “back in the day,” and he has presented on the topics of wireless security and cloud security at a variety of other conferences, including Black Hat, DEF CON, ToorCon, LayerOne, AWS re:Invent, and AWS re:Inforce. Beetle has a BS in Computer Science from James Madison University.