Thomas Scanlon holds a doctoral degree in Information Systems and currently is a researcher in the SEI’s CERT Division. He has more than 10 years of industry experience with Fortune 500 companies. Scanlon currently specializes in applied research topics related to secure software engineering, such as authentication and authorization, secure software development, automated testing tools, cyber threat modeling, and the Risk Management Framework (RMF). During the past 2 years, he has worked directly with the Joint Federated Assurance Center (JFAC) within the Department of Defense on the prototyping and selection of software testing tools and developing guidelines for others on selecting appropriate software testing tools.