Thomas Hemker Director Security Strategy, Symantec
Thomas Hemker is Director Security Strategy at Symantec with over 22 years of experience in information security. When joining the company in 2010, he also became part of the Symantec CTO Office and is responsible for exchanging ideas with security professionals in the corporate world, the public sector, and actors of the security industry in general. He advises customers regarding their security strategy, cyber resilience, current threat scenarios and technological development.Prior to his position at Symantec, Thomas Hemker was in charge of the Central-European presales department at PGP (PGP Deutschland AG). He also gathered experience as a systems engineer, consultant and product manager at Network Associates and a security distributor, with a focus on encryption, PKI and key management, as well as network security and analysis (Firewall, IDS/IPS). Furthermore, Thomas Hemker is a distinguished speaker at security conferences and holds several security industry certifications, for instance the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He represents Symantec at ISF, TeleTrust e.V. Bitkom and ENISA. As a security professional he is a member of ISACA and (ISC)2, where he cofounded the (ISC)2 Chapter Germany and served as member of the board. |