Thomas MacKenzie is the Associate Partner of Europe for X-Force Red, IBM's elite security testing team. Thomas began his career in information security at a boutique firm in the North of England (UK) where he was employed as a security engineer in a web application security testing team. Following on from this position, Thomas spent the majority of his time focusing on application security at multiple companies including Trustwave's Spiderlabs, Visa Europe and finally NCC Group. In recent years, Thomas worked as the commercial manager for a dedicated transport cyber security practice within NCC Group assisting companies within the automotive, maritime, aerospace and rail industries ensure that their vehicles and connected infrastructure were secure. Thomas was the co-founder of an advisory management system called upSploit, an automated disclosure system that helped security researchers and vendors communicate vulnerability information quickly, easily and in an ethical manner. upSploit predated modern bug bounty and vulnerability management frameworks that are popular today. Speaking engagements include BlackHat, Bsides, OWASP, DC4420, 44CON and DeepSec.
