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
The recent press activity around the New York Times Cyberattack, and the response from their vendor are causing quite a stir in the malware protection community – so much in fact that some journalists have gone as far as claiming that “antivirus protection alone barely represents a speed bump to determined hackers” Andy Greenburg, Forbes Surprisingly, Read more…
Tags: NY Times
Many people have contacted my team and I over the last few days about the recent announcement by ElcomSoft, that they offer a tool to decrypt Bitlocker, PGP and Truecrypt volumes. This $299 tool is advertised as getting you access to this encrypted data quickly and easily… Now, this may sound exciting, but as they Read more…
This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the Innovation roadshow. It’s a prototype project that my team has been working on for some Read more…
Tags: Connected Home, Little Red Box, UTM
This week BBC News and others reported that Gibraltar is joining another well known destination, Monmouth UK, by tagging locations around the country with printed 2 dimensional bar codes (QR Codes) which can be scanned by your smartphone to link you to Wikipedia articles. As a regular traveler, tourist, and conveyor of useless information, to Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, mobile security, QRCode, Robert Siciliano, Trevi
With the news of the latest zero-day exploit for IE gaining press around the globe, there seems to be increasing coverage that “security experts” are advising users to stop using Internet Explorer until Microsoft releases a patch for the root problem. PC-World’s Ian Paul relays this story, and repeats Metasploit’s advice – use another browser. That’s Read more…
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
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