TippingPoint Digital Vaccine Laboratories
DID YOU KNOW... Peter won the Pwn2Own competition in 2010, bypassing ASLR and DEP protections on a Windows 7 machine running IE8. After this display of exploitation prowess we recruited him to the DVLabs research team.

Trinity Sheil

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DV Test Manager


Trinity joins Tipping Points DV Team as the Test Manager, having served a long career in Fortune 500 companies including Dow Jones where she conducted Security test for stock and commodity trading. She learnt her hacking skills on Wall Street and as a native New Yorker she and her family opted for the warmth and flip flops of Austin, TX. She holds a Masters in Information Technology and Management from Steven's Institute of Technology and is completing her PhD in Information Technology at Capella University with a specialization in Security and Architecture. Her dissertation on Outsourcing will be published later in 2010. Her personal passion lies in the work she does on the weekend for the homeless of Austin, a passion shared with her three children.

At TippingPoint, Trinity will be responsible for managing a test team that will validate and ensure the stability and reliability of the filters created before they are released to customers.

She is a current guest lecturer for the MSIS classes at University of Texas, Austin, and owns and operates two businesses with her husband: Patient Grasshopper Inc, a software consulting company and SRT (Sheil Research and Technology). Trinity loves researching and has an uncanny ability to dig deep into unrelated pieces of information and provide analysis, surely a skill that will be put to use in DV.

Random facts about Trinity: She collects stand up video arcade games for her game room and is a compulsive Tetris Freak.