Name Tom Parker | ||
Tom Parker is an English author, vulnerability researcher and computer security professional. He has been performing vulnerability research and providing information security expertise to the financial services, petrochemical and software development domains and to large local and federal governments since the mid 1990s.
In 2000 Parler founded a security consulting company, Global InterSec, to do software security research, and increase awareness of software security vulnerabilities throughout the public and private sectors. He is now a consulting practice director at a Washington DC-based security consulting firm, Securicon LLC . Its clients include large power generation and petrochemical organizations, as well as the US Federal Government.
Parker is a member of the information security community and is frequently contacted by the media for comments on cybersecurity topics. . He is also engaged in discussions about the development of improved regulatory compliance and furthering Cyber Security initiatives.
Parker donates time lecturing on Information Warfare at academic institutions such as Georgetown University.