Peter S. Tippett
Vice President
Verizon Business

Peter Tippett is a vice president for Verizon Business, Security Solutions powered by Cybertrust and the Chief Scientist of 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 15 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product which later became Norton Anti-virus where he led the first $300 Million in revenue growth. Tippett is currently best known for his creation of pragmatic enterprise risk metrics and large, risk intelligence and compliance management programs for enterprises. For example the Cybertrust "Security Management Program" has served over 1,000 organizations for 11 years yielding over 40-fold risk reduction with gross margins to Cybertrust exceeding 75% and with a recurring revenue renewal rate exceeding 80%. In addition to start-up and small company CEO positions, Tippett has led large software development, product management, production labs, technology research and intelligence teams in his business career.

Tippett makes the relationship with each customer a mutual learning experience with a business-focused philosophy that drives IT practices to be better understood, more effective and more efficient.