McAfee Inc. Names Jeff Green Head of McAfee Avert Labs

McAfee Inc. Names Jeff Green Head of McAfee Avert Labs

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/  McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced that Jeff Green has been named senior vice president of McAfee® Avert® Labs and Product Development. In his new role, Green has worldwide responsibility for McAfee's entire research organization, located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He will oversee research teams focused on viruses, hacker/targeted attacks, spyware, spam, phishing, vulnerabilities and patches, and host and network intrusion technologies. Green will also lead long-term security research to ensure that McAfee stays ahead of emerging threats.

Green is an industry veteran with over 10 years of experience in software security. He has spent the last seven years with McAfee as senior vice president of product development. During this time, Green was instrumental in helping McAfee provide protection to customers when 'Melissa', the first major email-borne virus, hit and was first to deliver anti-virus gateway appliances. He has also been responsible for delivering the core technology McAfee uses to provide anti-virus and spyware protection to its customers. Before joining McAfee, Green held senior management positions at Dr. Solomon's and Clearswift. He has also been involved in product development for the banking and telecommunications space.

"Jeff's proven track record of building world-class security products and technologies will make him instrumental in this important role," said Christopher Bolin, chief technology officer, McAfee. "Security research is in our DNA, guides our product development, and is vital to serving our customers  from consumers, small and medium businesses, large enterprises and ISPs, to partners. Jeff has already implemented the most granular emergency customer communication program in McAfee's history, and will continue to look for new and innovative ways to help keep our customers protected."

Green is a graduate in Computer Science of the University of East Anglia.

McAfee Avert Labs maintains one of the top-ranked security threat and research organizations in the world, employing researchers in 17 cities and 12 countries around the globe. McAfee Avert Labs combine world-class malicious code and anti-virus research with intrusion prevention and vulnerability research expertise.

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