Sean Pierce (@secure_sean) is a Red Team Lead for Target. Sean currently specializes in Threat Emulation (Threat Modeling/Purple Teaming) and in the past has dabbled in Reverse Engineering (Malware mostly) Incident Response, Botnet Tracking, and Information Security Economics. Prior working at Target he worked as Chief Threat Emulation Engineer at iSIGHT Partners who was later acquired by FireEye. Prior to that he was an academic researcher and part time lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where he earned a Bachelor's of Computer Engineering with a minor in Math.