“If there was an Encyclopedia Britannica of computer security, it would be Hacking Exposed.”
--Marty Roesch, creator of the Snort tool

Stuart McClure is senior vice president of risk management product development at McAfee, Inc., where he is responsible for driving product strategy and marketing for the McAfee Foundstone family of risk mitigation and management solutions. McAfee Foundstone saves countless millions in revenue and hours annually in recovering from hacker attacks, viruses, worms, and malware. Prior to his role atMcAfee, Stuart was founder, president, and chief technology officer of Foundstone, Inc., which was acquired by McAfee in October of 2004. Widely recognized for his extensive and in-depth knowledge of security products, Stuart is considered one of the industry’s leading authorities in information security today. A well-published and acclaimed security visionary, he brings many years of technology and executive leadership to McAfee Foundstone, along with profound technical, operational, and financial experience. At Foundstone, Stuart led both product vision and strategy, as well as holding operational responsibilities for all technology development, support, and implementation. During his tenure, annual revenues grew over 100 percent every year since the company’s inception in 1999.

In 1999, he took the lead in authoring Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions,the best-selling computer security book ever sold with over 500,000 copies sold todate. Stuart also co-authored Hacking Exposed: Windows 2000 by McGraw-Hill/Osborne and Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense by Addison-Wesley.

Prior to Foundstone, Stuart held a variety of leadership positions in security and IT management, with Ernst & Young’s National Security Profiling Team, two years as an industry analyst with InfoWorld’s Test Center, five years as director of IT with both state and local California government, two years as owner of an IT consultancy, and two years in IT with the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Stuart holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy, with an emphasis incomputer science applications from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He later earned numerous certifications including ISC2’s CISSP, Novell’s CNE, and Check Point’s CCSE.

Joel Scambray is a senior director in Microsoft Corporation’s MSN Security group, where he faces daily the full brunt of the Internet’s most notorious denizens, from spammers to Slammer. He is most widely recognized as co-author of Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, the international best-selling Internet security book, as well as related titles on Windows and web application security. Before joining Microsoft in August 2002, Joel helped launch security services startup Foundstone, Inc. to a highly regarded position in the industry, and he previously held positions as a manager for Ernst & Young, security columnist for Microsoft TechNet, editor at large for InfoWorld Magazine, and director of IT for a major commercial real estate firm. He has spoken widely on information security to organizations such as CERT, The Computer Security Institute (CSI), ISSA, ISACA, SANS, private corporations, and government agencies, including the FBI and the RCMP. Joel has maintained CISSP accreditation since 1999.

Joel Scambray can be reached at joel@webhackingexposed.com.

George Kurtz is senior vice president of risk management at McAfee,Inc., where he is responsible for the roadmap and product strategy for the McAfee Foundstone portfolio of risk management and mitigation solutions to protect IT infrastructures and optimize business availability.Prior to his role at McAfee, George was CEO of Foundstone, Inc.,which was acquired by McAfee in October of 2004.

With his combination of business savvy and technical know-how, George charted Foundstone’s strategic course, positioning the company as a premier “pure play” security solutions provider. George co-founded Foundstone in 1999, and his vision and entrepreneurial spirit helped attract a world-class management team to join him in building one of the most successful and dominate private security companies. During his tenure as chief executive officer at Foundstone, George successfully raised over $20 million in venture capital and was responsible for consummating several international strategic partnerships as well asthe sale of Foundstone to McAfee in 2004. He was nationally recognized as one of FastCompany’s Fast 50 leaders, technology innovators and pioneers, and was regionally named 2003 Software Entrepreneur of the Year by the Southern California Software Industry Council.

Prior to co-founding Foundstone, George served as a senior manager and the national leader of Ernst & Young’s Security Profiling Services Group. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, George was a manager at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, where he was responsible for the development of their Internet Security testing methodologies used world-wide.

As an internationally recognized security expert and entrepreneur, George is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences and has been quoted or featured in many top publications and media programs, including The Wall Street Journal, Time, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and CNN. He co-authored the best selling Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions as well as Hacking Linux Exposed and regularly contributes to leading industry publications.

George holds several industry designations, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified Public Accountant (CPA). George graduated with honors from Seton Hall University where he received a bachelor of science in accounting.