We will be hosting Tony Rucci and he will be presenting “DON’T BE THE BREAKING NEWS” (CyberSecurity from the Trenches...What We See and What Gives us PTSD).

About Tony:
Antonio A. Rucci is a retired Counterintelligence Special Agent and US Army Warrant Officer, with more than 39 years of technical security experience. Tony runs a private CyberSecurity Consulting Firm in Knoxville, TN performing Penetration Testing, Passive Network Assessments and Incident Response Professional Services to both private government and commercial entities throughout the country.

Tony ran technical espionage and computer crimes investigations for a good portion of his operational career. He served as the Counterintelligence Operations Officer at The White House; serving two administrations from 1998-2004. He led the technical accreditation for a critical facility at one of the DOE National Labs before being recruited to move to Reno, Nevada to build a data center for one of the beltway bandits. Since then, Tony has started three of his own companies; served as the Chief Security Officer for two others; and ran Incident Response & Threat Intelligence for two others before stepping back into Private Consulting. Tony continues to serve national security efforts with his CyberSecurity Consulting Firm in Knoxville, and gets in the way a lot while Pam, his wife of 39 years, is taking care of their three beautiful grand babies!