Our Editorial Team

Editorial Staff

  • Tom Field

    Editorial Director

    Tom Field is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years experience in newspapers, magazines, books, events and electronic media. A veteran community journalist with extensive business/technology and international reporting experience, he has written news, sports, features, fiction and analysis for publications ranging from Editor & Publisher to Yankee Magazine, and he has held editorial management positions at weekly and daily newspapers, as well as a global business/technology magazine. An accomplished public speaker, Field has developed and moderated scores of podcasts, webcasts, roundtables and conferences, and he has appeared on C-SPAN, The History Channel and Travel Channel television programs.

  • Tracy Kitten

    Managing Editor, BankInfoSecurity, CUInfoSecurity

    A veteran journalist with more than 14 years experience, Tracy Kitten most recently covered the ATM and financial self-service industries as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace.com. During her six-year tenure with ATMmarketplace.com, Kitten reported extensively about ATM security and regulatory issues facing the global ATM market. She also played an instrumental role in promoting the site's social media presence and was at the forefront of the development of ATMmarketplace.com's videos, podcasts and webinars. She was a regular presenter at conferences hosted by the global ATM Industry Association and was the keynote speaker at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She also has spoken at events hosted by Bank of America, Credit Union Conferences and PULSE, and has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

  • Eric Chabrow

    Executive Editor, GovInfoSecurity & InfoRiskToday

    Chabrow, who oversees ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday, is a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business. He's the former top editor at the award-winning business journal CIO Insight and a long-time editor and writer at InformationWeek.

  • Howard Anderson

    Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity, DataBreachToday

    Howard J. Anderson is executive editor of HealthcareInfoSecurity a multi-media site offering news, views and analysis on all aspects of healthcare information privacy and security. He has more than 34 years of journalism experience, with a focus on healthcare information technology issues. Before launching HealthcareInfoSecurity, he served as founding editor of Health Data Management magazine, where he worked for 17 years, and he served in leadership roles at several other healthcare magazines and newspapers.

  • Upasana Gupta

    Contributing Editor, CareersInfoSecurity

    Upasana Gupta oversees CareersInfoSecurity and shepherds career and leadership coverage for all Information Security Media Group's media properties. She regularly writes on career topics and speaks to senior executives on a wide-range of subjects, including security leadership, privacy, risk management, application security and fraud. She also helps produce podcasts and is instrumental in the global expansion of ISMG websites by recruiting international information security and risk experts to contribute content, including blogs. Upasana previously served as a resource manager focusing on hiring, recruiting and human resources at Icons Inc., an IT security advisory firm affiliated with ISMG. She holds an MBA in human resources from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa.

  • Jeffrey Roman

    Associate Editor

    Jeffrey Roman is the Associate Editor for Information Security Media Group. Having worked for multiple publications at The College of New Jersey, including the College's daily newspaper "The Signal," Jeffrey has experience in journalism and copy editing.

Contributing Writers

Philip Alexander, CISSP - ISSMP, MCSE - MCT, MPA

Anton Chuvakin, Author, PCI Expert

William Henley, SVP - Regulation, BITS

Markus Jakobsson

Steven Jones, Vice President, Director Information Security, Synovus Financial Corp.

Stephen R. Katz, CISSP, President of Security Risk Solutions

Jeff Kopchik, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

David Navetta, Founding Partner, Information Law Group

Kim Peretti, J.D., LL.M., CISSP, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Joe Rogalski, SVP, First Niagara Bank

Bob Russo, General Manager, PCI Security Standards Council

Donald Saxinger, Senior Examination Specialist

Bill Sewall

Paul Smocer, VP Security, BITS

Matthew Speare, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, M&T Bank

Kevin Sullivan, Investigator, New York State Police

George Tubin, Banking and Security Analyst

Mike Urban, Director of Portfolio Management, Fiserv

Tom Wills, Senior Risk and Fraud Analyst, Javelin Strategy & Research