GM/SVP/CTO of the Risk and Compliance Business Unit at McAfee
Mr. McClure is responsible for overall business operations and strategy for the BU. Prior to McAfee, McClure held positions as Executive Director of Security Services for Kaiser Permanente, a $34 billion Healthcare organization, was SVP of Global Threats and Research, AVERT for McAfee where he led an elite global security threats team, and was Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Foundstone, a product and consulting company empowering U.S. government agencies and Global 500 companies to continuously and measurably manage and mitigate risk. Before Foundstone Mr. McClure helped establish and run the Ernst & Young National Computer Security Practice. Prior to Ernst & Young, Mr. McClure helped run the test labs at InfoWorld Test Center, performing hundreds of product reviews, comparisons, and analyses. Prior to InfoWorld, Mr. McClure was Dir. of IT for state and local government in the U.S.
Widely recognized for his extensive and in-depth knowledge of security, McClure is one of the industry's leading authorities in information security today. His first book, "Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions" has been translated into over 30 languages, was ranked the #4 computer book ever sold, and is the definitive best-selling computer security book in history. A well-published and acclaimed security visionary, McClure has over 22 years of technology and executive leadership with profound technical, operational, and financial experience. He holds a Bachelor's from the University of Colorado-Boulder and holds numerous certifications including CNE, and CCSE.
Yesterday I had the honor of keynoting at RSA. This theme of this year’s conference is “the Cipher is Mightier than the Sword” – based on the story of the Great Cipher, which was used for nearly 200 years before its key was cracked in 1893. The lessons for me with this story are that Read more…
Today, McAfee completed its acquisition of privately held NitroSecurity, an enterprise-class security and information management (SIEM) security vendor. I’ll be talking more about this acquisition with Ken Levine, chairman, president and chief executive officer, NitroSecurity, during a McAfee Webcast December 7 at 9:00 am Pacific Time. To register, please visit http://events.mcafee.com/forms/11Q4McAfeeAcquiresNitrowebcast. NitroSecurity is a leader Read more…
Tags: NitroSecurity, security management, SIEM
I am excited to share that McAfee has officially announced its intent to acquire privately owned NitroSecurity. NitroSecurity is a leading provider of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions that offers complete visibility and situational awareness to protect critical information and infrastructure. With NitroSecurity’s technology and talent, McAfee can expand its reach into the fast Read more…
If we look at the evolution of hacking, certain techniques never go out of style, but we’re at the beginning of a big shift in terms of the targets. The threat landscape has evolved beyond PCs, tablets, and smartphones to a whole new battleground: connected devices all around us. According to Ericsson, there will be Read more…
Tags: black hat hackers, cyber attack, embedded, Hacking Exposed, Risk and Compliance, security, white hat hackers
Advanced persistent threats like we’ve seen with Stuxnet and Night Dragon target the manufacturing and process industry, including national critical infrastructure. The industrial revolution started our reliance on automation. However as the industry became more integrated, modular and adaptable to broader industrial processing it also grew more vulnerable and susceptible to attack. Adding further complication Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, critical infrastructure, data breach, McAfee Application Control
Last month at the RSA Conference, McAfee announced a partnership with Wind River to develop, market and support security solutions for non-PC devices. Today, marks the first implementation of this relationship and the first step toward the vision for securing embedded devices and the world beyond PCs. The release of the Common McAfee Agent (CMA) Read more…
Tags: embedded, enterprise, McAfee ePO, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, security, Wind River
Something Changed With Aurora Even before the China centered Operation Aurora attack (a.k.a. Google attacks) in which hackers broke into numerous high-profile organizations in the US to steal highly confidential information, I had been warning customers (and anyone in ear shot quite frankly) of the most effective strategies to protect against the deluge of advanced Read more…
Tags: data breach, database activity monitoring, database security, enterprise, intellectual property, Night Dragon, Operation Aurora, Sentrigo acquisition
There is light at the end of the tunnel – risk and compliance technologies and standards are relieving auditors and businesses in this age of increased electronic accountability. On the heels of our integration of SolidCore’s technology, researchers from McAfee Avert Labs have laid out the compliance challenges facing organizations, and the new standards which can Read more…
Tags: Compliance, Data Protection, FISMA, HIPAA, SCAP
An epic transformation in the world of security is upon us. Today, we released the first issue of our semi-annual security magazine Sage. We will leverage this communication vehicle to deliver meaningful and sometime raw content to the masses. We take our responsibility to protect the public from malicious malcontents very seriously and will not Read more…
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