Lane Thames
Lane Thames is a Principal Cybersecurity Researcher at Fortra where he develops software for vulnerability detection along with data-driven internal tooling and automation capabilities. He also conducts cybersecurity research, assists customers with reducing their cybersecurity risk, investigates newly discovered vulnerabilities, and contributes to Fortra’s Tripwire State of Security blog.
Lane joined Fortra when it acquired Tripwire in 2022, where he had spent over a decade working in security research and software engineering roles. Prior to that Lane worked for nCircle (acquired by Tripwire), Georgia Institute of Technology and Verisign.
Lane has published two cybersecurity based books and has numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics such as cybersecurity, cloud-based design and manufacturing, and machine learning. Lane has been a speaker at conferences such as RSA, BSides, SecTor, Hacker Halted, and the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference along with academic conferences hosted by ACM, IEEE, ASME, and ASEE.
Lane received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has over 23 years of experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, software engineering, and information technology.