Stuart McClure, CNE, CCSE, Global CTO for McAfee/Intel, is
responsible for a nearly $3B consumer and corporate security products
business. During his tenure at McAfee, Stuart has also held the General
Manager position for the Security Management Business for McAfee/Intel,
which enabled all McAfee corporate security products to be
operationalized, managed, and measured. Alongside those roles, Stuart
has also run an elite team of good guy hackers inside McAfee called
TRACE that discovered new vulnerabilities and emerging threats.
Previously, Stuart helped run security at the largest healthcare company
in the U.S., Kaiser Permanente. In 1999, Stuart was also the original
founder of Foundstone, Inc., a global consulting and products company,
which was acquired by McAfee in 2004.
Joel Scambray, CISSP,
is Managing Principal with Citigal as well as Co-Founder of Consciere
LLC. He was previously chief strategy officer for Leviathan Security
Group, an information security consultancy. He was a senior director at
Microsoft Corporation, where he led Microsoft's online services security
efforts for three years before joining the Windows platform and
services division to focus on security technology architecture. Before
joining Microsoft, Joel co-founded security software and services
startup Foundstone, Inc., and helped lead it to acquisition by McAfee.
He has spoken widely on information security at forums including Black
Hat, I-4, and The Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM). Joel is the co-author of
all five editions of
Hacking Exposed and lead author of
Hacking Exposed: Windows, currently in its third edition, and
Hacking Exposed: Web Applications, currently in its second edition.
George Kurtz, CISSP,
George Kurtz is co-founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, a cutting-edge big
data security technology company focused on helping enterprises and
governments protect their most sensitive intellectual property and
national security information. George Kurtz is also an internationally
recognized security expert, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. He has
almost twenty years of experience in the security space and has helped
hundreds of large organizations and government agencies around the world
tackle the most demanding security problems. His entrepreneurial
background and ability to commercialize nascent technologies has enabled
him to drive innovation throughout his career by identifying market
trends and correlating them with customer feedback, resulting in rapid
growth for the businesses he has run. In 2011 George relinquished his
role as McAfee’s Worldwide Chief Technology Officer to his co-author and
raised $26M in venture capital to create CrowdStrike. During his
tenure as McAfee’s CTO, Kurtz was responsible for driving the integrated
security architectures and platforms across the entire McAfee
portfolio. Kurtz also helped drive the acquisition strategy that
allowed McAfee to grow from $1b in revenue in 2007 to over $2.5b in
2011. In one of the largest tech M&A deals in 2011, Intel (INTC)
acquired McAfee for nearly $8b. Prior to joining McAfee, Kurtz was Chief
Executive Officer and co-founder of Foundstone, Inc., which was
acquired by McAfee in October 2004. You can follow George on Twitter
@george_kurtz or his blog at http://www.securitybattlefield.com.
