Tom "strace" Stracener is Cenzic's Sr. Security Analyst reporting to the office of the CTO. Mr. Stracener was one of the founding members of nCircle Network Security. While at nCircle he served as the head of vulnerability research from 1999 to 2001, developing one of the industry's first quantitative vulnerability scoring systems, and co-inventing several patented technologies. Mr. Stracener is an experienced security consultant, penetration tester, and vulnerability researcher. One of his patents, 'Interoperability of vulnerability and intrusion detection systems,' was granted by the USPTO in October 2005. Tom is the Senior Security Analyst for Cenzic's CIA Labs. Tom has spoken at various conferences including New York Security Conference, ISSA, OWASP, Defcon, and others.