VP and CTO, Endpoint Security
Simon Hunt has more than 20 years experience in software development, design and consultancy with fortune 500 companies. An accomplished consultant, software architect and designer, his vision and foresight have been the driving forces behind the technical success of the McAfee Endpoint Security product range.
Mr. Hunt took the reins for McAfee’s data protection product range when it was a single user product in its infancy. Through continued feature development, and by working with customers to realize their enterprise requirements, Mr. Hunt took the product set from one of many niche players to the acknowledged leader in its market.
Working as Chief Technology Officer in the SafeBoot group since 1997 prior to it’s acquisition by McAfee in 2007, and now acting as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Endpoint Security for McAfee, Inc., Mr. Hunt works to steer both the product suite and global consultancy teams.
Before working with SafeBoot/McAfee, Mr. Hunt worked with other security product vendors such as Mergent International and Utimaco, and also had a significant impact on quality and engineer training at ICL Fujitsu where he was responsible for engineer training and consumer product support.
Mr. Hunt’s exceptional track record of technical improvement is based on his belief in quality and expandability. He is known for his ability to quickly identify customer requirements and translate them into realizable product features which go far beyond “quick fixes.” Mr. Hunt is known for his ability to pre-empt future changes by building in enhancement capability from the beginning.
Mr. Hunt received his B.S. degree from the University of North Wales, Bangor where he studied Marine Biology and Oceanography. He is a qualified BSAC scuba-diving instructor, and a Trustee of his local diving club. Mr. Hunt currently lives in Naples, Florida.
Simon's personal blog is at http://simonhunt.wordpress.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CTOGoneWild
Recently, the New York Times wrote an article titled “Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery.” The article focused on China, and the precautions that some executives take when traveling to that country. When I was approached to speak to the reporter for this story, I told her that I didn’t think it was Read more…
Would it surprise you to know that yesterday, more than 5000 tweets were posted with URLS which would have dropped you on sites which distribute malware? It was only a small portion of the total number of tweets containing URLs, around 2.5 million or so, and there were an additional ~200,000 that went to sites Read more…
Tags: innovation, OCTO, twitter
Welcome to “15 minutes with” – an occasional contribution between Simon Hunt, CTO Endpoint Security and the movers-and-shakers within McAfee’s technical community. This week on the stand is Ben Andrew, Senior Product Manager for Virtualization Security. So Ben, care to tell us how long you’ve been with McAfee, and what you’ve been involved in? Hi Read more…
Welcome to “15 minutes with” – an occasional contribution between myself and the movers-and-shakers within McAfee’s technical community. This week on the stand is my good friend and occasional co-presenter, David O’Berry CSSLP, CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, CRMP. Now a McAfee Strategic systems engineer, his previous life was 19 years in the public sector, culminating as Director Read more…
I was in Madrid speaking at a conference a couple of months ago, and arriving after one of my favorite trans-Atlantic flights (you know the ones, where the ratio of screaming children to adults is not conducive to rest or even playing Angry Birds) I was excited to take one of the citi-cabs which have Read more…
Tags: automotive
“McAfee launches a range of pharmaceutical anti-viral medications to thwart the growing problem of Biological computer viral attacks” Sounds far fetched? Maybe not given that researches at Caltech have successfully engineered a biological computer which can calculate square roots using DNA replication. Given that the researchers Lulu Quan and Erik Winfree have successfully demonstrated AND and OR logic gates at the Read more…
Tags: attacks, Biological Computer, Hackers, virus
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been presenting around the U.S. at events such as Secure360 in St. Paul, and the McAfee Executive Summits in Boston and New York. One question I was asked at every event, was “What is a mobile device?” The flippant answer of course which after two weeks of middle Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, enterprise, Mid-Market, Mobile, mobile security
An interesting story broke this week on BBC News and other sites regarding the Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) in France starting a legal challenge against a new French law passed on March 1, 2011, the “Decree on the conservation of data”, which insists on the preservation and tracking of online activity. The LCEN Read more…
Tags: ASIC, Data Protection, France, France Law, French Law, LCEN, privacy
By now I hope readers have seen our latest report – “Underground Economies” where McAfee and SAIC collaborated to investigate perceptions around intellectual capital – the “secret sauce” of companies. The report surveyed over 1,000 senior IT decision makers across the world, getting their opinion on where they thought their valuable data was, their attitude Read more…
Tags: SAIC, Underground Economies
Well, One week into the Intel/McAfee relationship and I am pleased to say it’s already bearing fruit. Over the last few days I’ve been reaching out to all my Intel peers, making the connections with people which were simply impossible while the deal was going through all the evaluations. I had an interesting discussion with Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Data Protection, encryption, enterprise, intel, Mid-Market, solid state drive
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