Tom Le — CEO

I see the world through a hacker's mindset. Follow me and I might surprise you with some unconventional security wisdom. # About me - work stuff: The engineer in me believes every Kobayashi Maru scenario has a winnable outcome. As a technical CISO, I have worn many hats - from exponentially evolving complex cyber maturity programs to large-scale IT infrastructure transformations. As an engineering leader, I’ve built industry re-defining security products. I’ve always led with the philosophy of continuously maturing security culture. I like solving hard, complex problems. I build security engineering teams with a practitioner-first philosophy - lifelong engineers (or hackers) who can rapidly assimilate new technology, tools, and techniques and intrinsically enjoy continuous skill expansion. I identify as an OG hacker, where ASM was table stakes and "detection engineering” meant decoding tcpdump and orchestrating custom Snort rules in real-time. Back in the day, we didn't have Splunk or Elastic but built our own log search and event correlation with Lucene. If I was stuck on a deserted island and could only bring one programming language with me, I'd choose Perl - the most under-appreciated & under-estimated IT supertool of all time. # About me - fun facts: • I was a professional gamer ranked #1 in the world in Command & Conquer. • I protected the Dubya Bush White House from cyber threats. • I was "doing AI" before it was cool. • I've written over 1 million PCRE threat signatures using Perl and tcpreplay (with a collection of malicious pcaps, of course). • My favorite secular possession is my Klingon Bat'leth forged from 1040 carbon steel. It proudly hangs in my background on Zoom calls. # Fighting words - prove me wrong: • My expert log analysis queries are still better than your AI/ML anything. • My tuned IDS provides more accurate signals than your anomaly detection platform. • My lowbrow SIEM with OG correlation rules is more effective than your SOC/SOAR/XDR AI-driven product. # Current topics of focus: • Modern detection engineering (the real stuff) • Detection evasion (top right MQ EDR bypass) • Failure modes in becoming anti-fragile • Reverse-engineering AI intent

Stackforce AI infers this person is a cybersecurity expert with a strong focus on detection engineering and security product development.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 10 yrs 11 mos