Vincent Weafer's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

As a Senior Vice President - Cyber Engineering at Capital One, Vincent Weafer is responsible for the design and development of test equipment for magneto optical disk test equipment, including software control for mechanical disk handling systems. He also worked on developing an advanced security eco-system to provide protection against zero-day attacks without relying on patches. Vincent is also a Vice President of Engineering at Intel Security Group, where he led the company’s mission to promote and further advance the research and intelligence-gathering capabilities, protect and build technology, and provide best-in-class protection solutions in malware, host and network intrusion, email, vulnerability, and web security. As a result of his work experiences and expertise, Vincent has the ability to quickly adapt to changes in technology and the ever-evolving threats that face businesses.Vincent has also been a member of the executive management team within the Office of the CTO at McAfee. Here, he leads a team of Solution leaders that drives McAfee’s global threat intelligence (GTI) Cloud Service that delivers ~55 billion security queries (File, Cert, URL and IP reputations) per day from 100+ million active clients to the McAfee Enterprise. This service is an essential part of McAfee’s Comprehensive Threat ProtectionTM platform, which helps organizations protect their data, systems and employees from the most severe threats. Vincent has a love for baking, and has published several baking recipes on his website.

🎓 Education

- M. Eng., Electronic Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1993- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2003

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Vincent Weafer has a wide variety of technical experience that allows him to expertise in a variety of different fields. In his previous roles, Weafer has specialization in malware engineering, secure information technology, and information security. In his work at Capital One, Weafer was responsible for the design and development of test equipment for magneto optical disk test equipment, including software control for mechanical disk handling systems. He also spent two years working at McAfee Labs where he was responsible for building an advanced security eco-system to provide protection against zero-day attacks.Possible Areas of Expertise in Cyber Engineering:• Cyber Engineering• Cyber Security• Security Engineering• system engineering• computer engineering• software engineering• information security• photonics engineering• electrical engineering• technology