Chip Thornsburg is a Professor of Cyber Defense at Northeast Lakeview College in San Antonio. Chip is responsible for developing curriculum and practical lab projects to train the next generation of Cyber workers. Chip retains his status as a Master Peace Officer in Texas and an Electronic Crimes Investigator. He has conducted cyber investigations for over 15 years, is a member of the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), has been inducted into the Order of the Sword and Shield, and is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the US Secret Service's Electronic Crime Task Force for incident response and ransomware attacks.