Tom Dimtsios to lead information security and assurance practice at Telos

Telos Corp. has named respected cybersecurity professional Tom Dimtsios to lead its Information Security and Assurance practice serving the critical security and compliance efforts of leaders in financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and other industries, including members of the Fortune 500.

“In our business, system integrity is an essential part of the commitment to our members”

Telos has garnered over 30 years’ experience defending vital networks throughout the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, as well as some of the largest financial institutions in the world. The Information Security and Assurance practice is part of the company’s cyber operations and defense group.

“In our business, system integrity is an essential part of the commitment to our members,” said David Hufnagel, chief operating officer for Congressional Federal Credit Union. “For years, we’ve relied on Tom and his colleagues at Telos Corporation as trusted partners in the effort to ensure we meet that commitment.”

Telos offers a full range of enterprise consulting and implementation services on both a firm-fixed price and time and materials basis, employing commercial best practices for efficient delivery of services, saving customers both time and money. These services include penetration testing, evaluation, vulnerability assessment,  security risk assessment, security assessment and authorization (A&A) compliance, IT security engineering and architecture design, policy and procedure development, computer security incident response and malicious code analysis. The company’s Xacta IA Manager is the compliance system of record at the enterprise level in several significant federal agencies.

Since joining Telos in 1990, Dimtsios has served as director of commercial consulting, technical project manager for information protection services, senior enterprise security consultant and as a systems engineer supporting the company’s efforts in military communications and communications management.

He has a B.S. in computer science from Monmouth University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), member of ISC² and one of the patent holder on Telos’ Xacta IA Manager product.