Peter Chronis
Chief Security Officer, EarthLink
Peter Chronis is the global Chief Security Officer for EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) a $1.2B consumer ISP and managed IT services company, where he is responsible for security product management, information security operations, architecture, governance, compliance and business continuity teams focused on protecting the company, its 1M customers and more than 500,000 IT assets. Chronis has over 15 years of experience using technology to manage risk for telecommunications, retail, financial and IT services companies. He is the inventor of several innovative proprietary IT security technologies that together have blocked more than 750 billion threats and prevented $100M in fraud. Prior to EarthLink, Chronis developed sophisticated proprietary fraud detection systems for Lynk Systems, an Atlanta based financial services company that was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland and is now called WorldPay.