Thomas Pace has an extensive background in building incident response programs, policies, procedures and playbooks at multiple top-tier organizations. Thomas has 11 years of security experience in various fields including physical security, intelligence gathering and analysis, sensitive site exploitation, incident response, intrusion analysis, and endpoint and network forensics. Thomas also has extensive experience in conducting assessments against various NIST special publications such as 800-53 and 800-171. Thomas is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University where he has developed a portion of the Homeland Security Studies program curriculum centered on cybersecurity. Thomas also currently provides guidance and expertise to the New Orleans cloud security community as the Louisiana Cloud Security Alliance Co-Chair.

Thomas served as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations, a Department of Energy contractor supporting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve worth billions of dollars. In this role, Thomas was the lead incident response official and was responsible for ensuring all incidents were appropriately identified, contained and remediated in a timely manner and reported to proper authorities if necessary. Additionally, Thomas was responsible for conducting intrusion analysis and threat hunting on a daily basis to ensure the organization was not breached. While conducting a multitude of analyses based on intrusions and incidents, Thomas built a multitude of playbooks and processes so junior technical personnel could also conduct analyses in an efficient manner.

Thomas served in the United States Marine Corps as an infantryman and intelligence specialist. During this time, Thomas deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the Marine Corps.

Thomas holds an M.S. in Information Science with a concentration in Information Assurance. Thomas also possesses multiple certifications such as GIAC GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, GICSP and GCWN. Thomas also is a Sourcefire certified professional, CISSP, and possesses CNSS 4011, 4012, 4013, 4014 and 4015.