Tom Gallagher has been intrigued with both physical and computer security from a young age. In 1999, Tom graduated from Loyola University of New Orleans and was hired to work as a penetration tester for Microsoft SharePoint. Since then, he has continued to work on the security of different parts of Microsoft Office and is currently the lead of the Office Security Test team. This team is primarily focused on penetration testing, writing security testing tools, and educating program managers, developers, and testers about security issues.

Bryan Jeffries has been interested in computers for as long as he can remember. Upon graduating from North Carolina State University in 2001 with a BS degree in Computer Science, he left his home state of North Carolina to work for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. He has been working as a software engineer in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for the past five years and is responsible for driving security testing across Microsoft Office Server System. Bryan lives in Kirkland, Washington, with his beautiful wife, Kim.

Lawrence Landauer’s first interest in computers was as a hobby. After graduating from Montana State University in 1995 with a BS degree in Industrial and Management Engineering, he has since worked for Microsoft Corporation as a software engineer working on coding, testing, and training projects related to security, personal productivity, and deployment.