Ashley Thomas is a member of iSensor IPS architecture team at SecureWorks where he contributes to the research and development of the core modules of the Intrusion Prevention System. Prior to SecureWorks, he was part of the Georgia Tech Information Security group where he conducted leading research in Intrusion Detection and Network Processors. He has also published papers in recognized information security conferences including IAS (Information Assurance and Security) 2010, RAID (Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection) 2002 and NP3 (Workshop on Network Processors & Applications) 2004. Ashley has a Masters Degree in Computing from North Carolina State University with a thesis in adaptive and self-reconfiguring Intrusion Detection Systems. He also holds the SANS GCIA (GOLD), SANS GSSP-C, and CISSP certifications.