Awards

In November 2009, was named one of the Top 20 Security Industry Pioneers.

Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People for 2008 by Security Magazine.

Voted one of the Top 5 Security Thinkers for 2007 by SC magazine.

In 2002, honored as a Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people by Network World.

Winn Schwartau is one of the world's top experts on security, privacy, infowar, cyber-terrorism and related topics. Provocative, informed, challenging, he's on the leading edge of thinking, writing and speaking. Highly technical security subjects are made understandable, entertaining, engaging and thought-provoking. Audiences find themselves challenged with original ideas which are related through historical analogy and metaphor and made relevant to the present and future world.

Winn makes you think. Then wonder. Then understand.

What do people say about Winn?

          "He is single handedly responsible for the infowar panic."
                   - Andy Mueller (CCC, Germany)

          "I think he is overstating the case."
                   - Reaction to his prescient predictions to Congress about growing infosec problems. June 1991.

Winn At a Glance

• Chairman, Board of Directors,Mobile Application Development Partners, LLC. Taming the perfect storm of security with cloud based security for the iPhone and 600 million other smart phones for consumer, the enterprise and carriers.
• President and founder of The Security Awareness Company, formerly known as Interpact, Inc. The Security Awareness Company develops innovative and entertaining information security awareness programs for private, public and government organizations.
• Founder and CEO of Trusted Learning Corporation, a revolutionary new on-line global educational system that permits any organization to rapidly open their own learning centers, and anyone to become a teacher.
• Founder of InfowarCon, the world’s premier conference on Information Warfare, Operations, Cyberterrorism and Critical Infrastructure Protection. www.InfowarCon.Com . In 2008, he sold InfowarCon to the Association of Old Crows. (www.Crows.org)
• Founder of SCIPPInternational (www.SCIPPInternational.Org), a non-profit global organization that provides recognized security awareness certification.
• He is the author of “Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids (and Parents and Teachers Without a Clue)” (2001/2002). “The best security book ever written.”(Dr. Fred Cohen, all.net) It has been adopted by schools and corporations across the country.
• In 2002, he was honored as a “Power Thinker” and one of the 50 most powerful people by Network World.
• He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” and was the Project Lead of the Manhattan Cyber Project Information Warfare and Electronic Civil Defense Team.
• Executive Producer of Hackers Are People Too, a documentary film.