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Started in January 2001, Secure Strategies is the personal consultancy of Tom Wills - an experienced security strategist, analyst and architect who provides advice and comprehensive risk management programs to executives in the payments, banking, ecommerce, homeland security, enterprise software, and telecoms industries. Active in this field since 1983, Wills is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and media commentator for his understanding of threat and vulnerability trends, emerging technologies, security business drivers, and IT/physical security convergence. His professional competencies span multiple:
• Security disciplines – information security, physical security, fraud mitigation, privacy, critical infrastructure and supply chain security, risk assessments, technology deployment, incident response, investigations, security education and awareness, standards, regulatory compliance.
• Technologies – digital identity and authentication, access control, C4ISR, video surveillance, risk analytics, online/mobile banking and payments, location based services, virtualization, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing.
• Business disciplines – security and fraud operations, strategic alliances, product development and marketing, general management, startup operations, international expansion.
• Executive roles – head of security and fraud operations, head of business and product development; project manager, program manager, industry analyst.
• Geographies – North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.
Wills' former employers include Visa, Hewlett-Packard, VeriFone, CommerceNet, and CrossCheck. Consulting clients include Wells Fargo, Royal Bank of Canada, CyberSource, Richemont, SMI-Hyundai, NTT, Javelin Strategy & Research, Intuit (PayCycle.com), and multiple technology startups. His career highlights include leadership roles in the design, development or management of:
• Comprehensive enterprise security and fraud management programs, as head of security for CrossCheck and Paycycle.com.
• Port security assessments at Hong Kong, Southampton and Newport in preparation for the US Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Safe Commerce – a pilot program to track the progress of shipping containers across the global supply chain using RFID and GPS.
• Advanced security operations centers (SOCs) for seaports (Dubai), police services (Abu Dhabi) and antiquity sites (the Egyptian Pyramids) in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Core payment card fraud control systems at Visa including the Address Verification Service (AVS), Card Verification Value (CVV), and Risk Identification Service (RIS)
• Pioneering standards and field trials of secure online payments at CommerceNet and VeriFone.
• New technologies to manage fraud and protect sensitive transactions conducted over the Internet.
Wills holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University as well as the CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) and CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) credentials. A resident of San Francisco, Wills has also lived and worked in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates.
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