Featured guest on Voice of the Voters February 18, 2009.

 

Tom Geairn is founder and president of the security and infrastructure consulting firm NewView Consulting, LLC, headquartered outside of Chicago in Northwest Indiana. He has been actively involved in the development and application of Internet and private network security projects since 1994, when he began work as a consultant with SRI International and the United States Department of Defense. Since that time, Mr. Geairn has led or partnered in the application of Internet communications technology in education, military installations, and private and public corporations including legal, medical, and manufacturing entities.

 

Currently, Mr. Geairn is involved directly with network and mobile device security and operating system design. The projects he is working on have created products that are used by top US corporations and numerous governmental agencies. Mr. Geairn’s company, NewView Consulting, LLC, also provides back-office design, programming, and installation services for secure web sites in the retail and manufacturing sectors. NewView Consulting is a security partner with Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft. NewView is also a Microsoft Business Solutions partner, and provides operating system design and distribution to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for Microsoft Windows CE and Microsoft Windows Embedded products.

 

In addition to running NewView, Mr. Geairn is an active participant in numerous volunteer-based groups that monitor and report on Internet and operating system security issues.