Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Lockheed Martin’s Bob Trono
Robert “Bob” Trono Vice President & Chief Security Officer, Lockheed Martin Corp. The U.S. military industrial base is targeted by foreign adversaries virtually every day. Bob Trono and the 2,000 security professionals he leads are tasked with protecting the corporation’s people, classified information, networks, intellectual property, physical property and facilities around the world from those
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: EY’s Rick McFeely
Rick McFeely Global Chief Security Officer, EY As global chief security officer, Rick McFeely moved his global team away from traditional security programs into adopting a very mature crisis management and business continuity planning model. With his experience and background with the FBI, he aggressively matured EY’s security model to plan and prepare for the
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: The MITRE Corp.’s John Wilson
John Wilson Vice President, Chief Information Officer & Chief Security Officer, The MITRE Corp. In 2021, John Wilson and his team implemented several IT and security initiatives to adapt to opportunities and challenges during the pandemic and to continue delivering innovative solutions to help MITRE succeed in its mission to solve problems for a safer
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Raytheon Technologies’ Tammi Morton
Tammi Morton Vice President & Chief Security Officer, Raytheon Technologies Tammi Morton’s biggest recent achievement as CSO was leading the successful integration of the heritage United Technologies Corp. and the heritage Raytheon Co. global security services functions throughout the close of the merger — and formation of Raytheon Technologies — while maintaining best-in-class operations across
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s James Kennedy
James Kennedy Chief Security Officer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory With over 37 years’ experience in industrial security, James Kennedy leads the strategy and operations for the MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s security program. Kennedy joins the laboratory after holding key leadership roles in Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and L3 Harris with a strategic focus toward enabling foundational areas:
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Leidos’ Terry W. Phillips
Terry W. Phillips Chief Security Officer, Leidos After a dynamic career protecting the Air Force and Space Force, Terry Phillips joined Leidos as chief security officer in January 2022. His arrival could not have happened at a better time. His experience in Europe and the Middle East allows Leidos to aptly assess operational risk in
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Peraton’s Michael Londregan
Michael Londregan Chief Security Officer, Peraton Mike Londregan played a critical role in many of Peraton’s recent successes, and helped the company scale in 2021 to become the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider. Working with a high-caliber team, he migrated over 17,000 clearances from two heritage organizations and harmonized over
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Applied Physics Laboratory’s Leonard Moss
Leonard Moss Chief Security Officer & Security Services Department Head, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory In 2021, Leonard Moss conducted a comprehensive strength, weakness, opportunity and threat analysis and implemented a new security framework for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Consequently, APL completed an extensive department restructure that helped posture his team to
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Arcfield’s Michael Smith
Michael Smith Chief Security Officer, Arcfield After a successful, 23-year career with the Secret Service, Michael Smith joined as the chief security officer of newly launched national security services provider Arcfield. For over two decades, he specialized in assessing and executing the technical and physical security plans necessary for safeguarding the nation’s most critical assets
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: ManTech’s Dan Payne
Dan Payne Senior Vice President & Chief Security Office, ManTech As CSO of ManTech, Dan Payne has emphasized operational security, worked to mature ManTech’s insider threat program and played a key role in growing a mutual understanding between government and private sector leaders on security issues both sectors face. “I’ve worked at very senior levels
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: CGI’s Stanley Sims
Stanley Sims Chief Security Officer, CGI After over 36 years in the U.S. government, including the military, serving in a variety of senior-level intelligence and security roles, Stanley Sims was considering retirement. That is until George Schindler, president and CEO of CGI, approached him with a new mission — to help accelerate CGI’s ambitious growth
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: Northrop Grumman’s Mary Rose McCaffrey
Mary Rose McCaffrey Vice President, Security, Northrop Grumman Leading global security for the company, Mary Rose McCaffrey is responsible for the protection of Northrop Grumman employees, facilities and information. She leads the security compliance framework and the company’s crisis management team. Under McCaffrey’s leadership, Northrop Grumman has worked to enable the secure convergence of classified
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: BAE Systems’ J.C. Dodson
J.C. Dodson Vice President & Chief Security Officer, BAE Systems Inc. After serving over a decade as BAE Systems plc’s global chief information security officer, J.C. Dodson was appointed in 2020 to a newly established role combining all elements of industrial, international and cybersecurity, into a single risk-management portfolio supporting U.S. and overseas operations. “Our
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: ASRC Federal’s David Tender
David Tender Chief Security Officer, ASRC Federal Since joining as chief security officer last June, David Tender has continued to elevate ASRC Federal’s security posture. His team has further strengthened ASRC Federal’s security processes and leveraged tools to ensure compliance, stability and readiness for growth. Tender’s 26 years in security — including service in the
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022: SAIC’s Michelle Joy Sutphin
Michelle Joy Sutphin Vice President & Chief Security Officer, Science Applications International Corp. Prior to her role at SAIC, Michelle Joy Sutphin served four years as spokesperson for the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee, working side by side with government policymakers to represent the 13,000 cleared defense contractors during the rewrite of the
Top 15 CSOs to Watch in 2022
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