Thomas Fuhrman is Managing Director of Cybersecurity Consulting and Advisory Services at Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC). He leads MRC’s cyber risk consulting practice in North America and works across Marsh & McLennan’s operating companies on a broad range of cyber initiatives. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Tom is an experienced cybersecurity consultant with over 20 years in the business. He has served in consulting leadership roles as the president of Delta Risk, founder and president of 3tau LLC, and senior vice president and partner at Booz Allen Hamilton. He is an experienced cybersecurity consultant in the financial sector and has supported financial institutions ranging from global money center banks and systemically important financial institutions to large U.S. regional banks with enterprise-wide cyber risk identification and management. He advised one of the largest banks in the world on rationalizing and structuring the cybersecurity programs of their U.S. subsidiaries in the establishment of their Intermediate Holding Company.
Tom was an active contributor to the development of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and has advised clients and boards of directors on its implementation. He is a strong advocate of the strategic management of cyber risk at the enterprise level through cyber risk quantification.
A recognized thought leader in cybersecurity, he has presented leading ideas in cybersecurity to many audiences through diverse publication channels.
Earlier in his career, he served on the staff of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where he authored the OSTP publication CYBERNATION: The American Infrastructure in the Information Age, a landmark report on critical infrastructure protection.