Holding Your Devices Hostage

By Steve Grobman

Steve Grobman is an Intel Fellow and the Chief Technology Officer with the Intel Security Group at Intel Corporation. Grobman joined Intel in 1994 as an architect in IT and has served in a variety of senior technical leadership positions during his Intel career. Before assuming his current role in late 2014, he spent a year as chief technology officer for the Intel Security Platform division and prior to that spent 2 years as CTO for Intel technologies at Intel's McAfee subsidiary to integrate security technology from the two companies. Before joining Intel, Grobman spent 4 years at IBM as a solutions programmer and developer. Grobman has published a number of technical papers and books and holds 20 U.S. and international patents in the fields of security, software and computer architecture, with another approximately 20 patents pending. He is also the recipient of two Intel Achievement Awards, the first earned in 2005 for the invention, initial architecture and strategy of the first PC embedded appliance; and the second in 2007 for the success of the Intel vPro technology platform. Grobman earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

The Cipher Brief’s Luke Penn-Hall sat down with Steve Grobman, Intel Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for Intel Security, at the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference, which took place in early August. Steve discussed how he views the threat from ransomware evolving.

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