Director of Federal Business Development
In his role, Tom Conway shapes McAfee's going forward strategy in serving the Department of Defense, Civilian, and Intelligence community client requirements as well as the cybersecurity needs of Defense Industrial Base prime contractors.
A 22 year veteran of the Federal IT industry, Tom has worked in progressively more responsible positions at market leaders including Northrop Grumman IT, Falcon Systems, and Zenith Data Systems.
A native of Northern Virginia,Tom holds a BBA from James Madison University and a MBA from George Mason University, both in Virginia.
The New Year is already in full swing and as always, we at McAfee are working hard to anticipate and prepare our customers for potential threats. The year 2010 had many major cybersecurity incidents, including Operation Aurora and the Stuxnet virus, showing the sophisticated ways in which dangerous people seek to exploit information systems. These incidents Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, Dave DeWalt, enterprise, government, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, Stuxnet, wikileaks
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Camille Tuuti of ExecutiveBiz to discuss my role as director of Federal Business Development at McAfee, as well as what we at McAfee see as emerging trends and threats. Below are a few highlights from our conversation, which appears in the latest Executive Profile feature: ExecutiveBiz: Read more…
Tags: Public Sector
Recently McAfee had the opportunity to participate in the LandWarNet Conference, the largest Army technology event of the year, hosted by AFCEA. General Keith Alexander, Commander of U.S. CYBERCOMMAND gave the opening keynote where he described the need for greater situational awareness and response at network speed. LandWarNet also was a tremendous opportunity for McAfee Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Dave DeWalt, government, Public Sector
One of the things I enjoy most about my job is the opportunity to collaborate with industry and public sector colleagues on issues that affect us all. This type of collaboration between industry and government is something of utmost important at McAfee, and I take pleasure in being a part of the process when I Read more…
Tags: government, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance, Telecommunications
Back in October, I wrote about the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)’s expected guidelines for the use of USB thumb drives following the ban of the removable storage devices. In 2008, DoD temporarily banned the use of thumb drives and other removable storage devices because virus, worms and malware were uploaded into their network. Today, Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, Device Control, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance
By now you’ve heard about Operation Aurora, a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on corporate infrastructure of several large companies that resulted in the theft of intellectual property. My colleague, George Kurtz, wrote a post on the subject that delves deeper into the subject here. As George said, the world has changed, and everyone’s threat Read more…
Tags: George Kurtz, Public Sector
Last year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) temporarily banned the use of thumb drives and other removable storage devices because viruses, worms and malware were uploaded to their network. Think about it. Thumb drives – tiny and able to enormous amounts of data – are ideal for moving information. Up until the ban, Read more…
Tags: Compliance, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Device Control, regulations
The U.S. Army’s secure portal approach may prove more practical than U.S. Marine Corps’ ban Recently, I had a chance to speak with Federal News Radio about evolving concerns at the Department of Defense (DoD) over network security and, in specific, the U.S. Marine Corps’ decision to enact a one-year ban on social media sites Read more…
Tags: Web 2.0
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