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Security Consultant |
William P. Crowell is an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology and Intelligence Systems. He is also a director and chairman of Broadware Technologies, an interactive video surveillance software company, a director of ArcSight, Inc., an enterprise security management software company and a director of Narus, an IP telecommunications Infrastructure software company. In July 2003 he was appointed to the Unisys Corporate Security Advisory Board (now the Security Leadership Institute) to address emerging security issues and best practices. In September 2003 he joined the Advisory Board at ChoicePoint, a data aggregation company.
William P. Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003. Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc., a Baltimore based VPN technology and product company. He continues to serve as a consultant and member of the Federal Advisory Board at SafeNet.
Prior to joining Cylink Crowell served for nearly four years as Deputy Director of the National Security Agency where he had held a series of senior positions including Deputy Director of Operations. From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, now a subsidiary of Titan Systems, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems.
In April 1999, Crowell was appointed to the President’s Export Council (PEC), which advised the administration on trade and export policy. He served as chairman of the PEC Subcommittee on Encryption, which worked with the Administration, Congress and private industry to substantially loosen restrictions on the export of encryption products and technology. He continues to serve on PEC subcommittee for export administration. In March 2001, the Secretary of Defense appointed Crowell to a federal advisory committee that conducted a comprehensive review of the U. S. Nuclear Command and Control System.
Since 9/11 he has served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published two landmark studies on Homeland Security and information-sharing, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Task Force on Terrorism and Deterrence, the National Research Council Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Panel on Information Technology, and the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security and Technology.
Crowell is an expert on network and information security issues. He has been quoted in many trade and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Information Week, Network World, Computer World, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine and the San Jose Mercury News. Crowell has also appeared on CBS MarketWatch, CNET News, CNBC and KNTV’s Silicon Valley Business. He was the technical advisor to the TV series, “Threat Matrix” during its run on ABC during the 2003 season. |
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