William P. Crowell

Biography

William Crowell is an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology, Security and Intelligence Systems. He also is a Director and Chairman of Broadware Technologies, an Internet streaming-video company, a Director of ArcSight, Inc., an enterprise security management software company, a Director of Narus, a software company specializing in IP telecommunications Infrastructure software, a Director at Ounce Labs, a software company specializing in source code vulnerability assessment tools and a Director of RVison, a video surveillance technology 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.

Bill 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, when  Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc., a Baltimore based VPN technology and security products company. He continues to serve as a consultant and member of the Federal Advisory Board at SafeNet.

Bill came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions in operations, strategic planning, research and development, and finance. In early 1994 he was appointed as the Deputy Director of NSA and served in that post until his retirement in late 1997  From 1989 to 1990, Bill 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, Bill 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 Bill 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 and has also served on numerous panels to investigate and improve our intelligence and security systems.

Bill 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.  Bill 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.