Biography

Tom Dugas serves as the Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Duquesne University. Tom is responsible leading the Information (cyber) security program to protect the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of data and systems at Duquesne University.

In 2019, Tom was recognized as the CISO of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council. Tom serves as a leader within the region as a Co-leader of the Greater Pittsburgh CISO Group, a member of the Advisory Board for the Pittsburgh CIO Forum, and part of the Governing Body of the Pittsburgh CIO Executive Summit. 

Tom is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is a graduate of Robert Morris University with a Master’s degree in Communication and Information Systems and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with majors in Accounting and Management Information Systems.

Prior to joining Duquesne University Tom spent over 11 years at Carnegie Mellon University where he held a variety of leadership positions including the oversight of areas such as technology enhanced spaces, media services, desktop support, help desk, project and portfolio management, education, and service management.

Tom was a member of the 2019 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference. He also is an active member of the KINBER Information Security Working Group, Internet2/Educause Cloud Services Group, C-CUE Information Security Consortium, InfraGard, and Steel City Information Security Group. Tom has served as co-chair of the Educause ECAR Cloud Computing Working Group where he published several cloud papers. He also contributed ECAR Cloud Total Cost of Ownership(TCO) Working Group and paper. Tom has served on the 2011 Educause Mid Atlantic Conference Committee as the Leadership and Strategic Thinking Track Lead, and a member of the Educause EDUComment Task Force.

Tom is an alumnus of the 2009 Leading Change/Frye Leadership Institute and the 2006 Educause Institute Leadership Program. 

Tom completed a Master's of Science in Communications and Information Systems from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also hold s Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Robert Morris University with dual-majors in Accounting and Management Information System.