Peter Tippett
VP, Technology and Innovation
Verizon Business
Peter Tippett is vice president of Technology and Innovation for Verizon Business and is the chief scientist of the security product testing and certification organization, ICSA Labs. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products, and over the past 16 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus. Tippett is best known for his creation of enterprise risk metrics, and large risk intelligence and compliance management programs for enterprises.
Tippett served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) to guide U.S. efforts in healthcare IT, information security and computational sciences research. InfoWorld recognized Tippett as one of the 25 most influential chief technology officers for 2002. He has also won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Tippett has written many articles and papers on IT and information security and was the founding executive publisher of Information Security Magazine.