Terry is the founder and Principal Analyst of D6 Research, a vendor-neutral research and advisory firm specializing in security, identity management, and authentication across the physical, transactional and logical domains. For the past 15 years, Terry has specialized in assisting global organizations to assess their security posture and deploy strong identiy credentials such as PKI, smart cards, OTP, SSO, and other technologies as massive scale with focused governance discipline. At D6, he has been focused on leveraging his experience to build repeatable methodologies, tools, and research in these areas for broader scale and impact. Prior to forming D6, he Vice President of Cloud Identity for idOnDemand, the first commercially available cloud-based smart card infrastructure which was acquired by the Identive Group in 2011. He also worked for ActivCard (vendor of the DOD Common Access Card management platform), and Bioscrypt (a leading biometric provider) where he led the development of the first commercially available converged identity credential authentication platform. Today, Terry applies his knowledge to impose transparency and disclosure from vendors for the benefit of customers and shares his experiences within communities. Terry is frequently published in media and presents at various conferences including DEFCON, DerbyCon, BSides, ISC West, and is a board member of ISSA Orange County and Security B Conferences of California.