Tony Rice leads automating secure application development operations for Cisco’s Critical Business Software team. With more than 20 years of experience, he has built and tested nearly ever aspect of simplifying and securing the application development lifecycle. Rice holds a patent on large scale SCM system monitoring, has pending cloud security automation patents and maintains a CISSP certification. In his spare time he enjoys getting students excited about STEM education through astronomy and space flight, volunteering as a NASA/JPL Ambassador and the NASA Langley Research Center's speakers bureau. He has spoken on security, development and space topics at conferences ranging from the IEEE to the American Meteorological Society.