Thomas S. Gardner

Principal Enterprise Security Architect @Discount Tire

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Principal enterprise security architect and cyber security team lead responsible for the security of the Discount Tire enterprise multi-cloud network, eCommerce web services and retail POS services. Focus areas are the research, innovation, adoption, of security frameworks, technologies, compliance gap analysis cyber threat research, modeling, and counter-measure development. Accomplishments include design and deployment of Splunk ES SEIM, OKTA for enterprise MFA SSO, managed, managed CA/PKI deployment for mobility device trust services, MuleSoft API security standards, Developed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust network access framework adoption and deployment strategy. Member of the Enterprise Architecture review Board, information governance team. IT risk management program framework adoption and PCI compliance management, threat and vulnerability management program Cloud/SaaS/Application/Platform security assessments, Static and dynamic code analysis, and logical & physical security assessments. application security, IT security policies and cloud governance program development. Developed and led PCI secure coding training courses.

DeVry University

ASEET, Electrical and Electronics Engineering