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Ryan Allphin

Profile of Ryan Allphin

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Security Management, McAfee
News & Commentary Posts: 2

Ryan Allphin is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for the McAfee Security Management business, which includes McAfee's flagship product ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), Enterprise Security Manager (SIEM), Data & Threat Intelligence Exchange, Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance, Risk Advisor and Security-as-a-Service products. Allphin leads the product management, engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive innovation and worldwide growth for this area of the business.

Since joining McAfee in 2002, Allphin has been a technologist leading several product engineering teams within security management and endpoint system security. His teams have been innovators and set the standard for security management in the industry with ePO and McAfee Agent technologies.

Prior to joining McAfee, Allphin worked at Novell for seven years where he held various product development and leadership positions.

Allphin has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Utah Valley University and has completed executive leadership courses. He lives in Utah, with his wife and 4 children.
Articles by Ryan Allphin
Crowdsourced vs. Traditional Pen Testing
Alex Haynes, Chief Information Security Officer, CDL,  3/19/2019
BEC Scammer Pleads Guilty
Dark Reading Staff 3/20/2019
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
hostapd before 2.6 does not prevent use of the low-quality PRNG that is reached by an os_random() function call.
CVE-2019-9947
PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
An issue was discovered in urllib2 in Python 2.x through 2.7.16 and urllib in Python 3.x through 3.7.2. CRLF injection is possible if the attacker controls a url parameter, as demonstrated by the first argument to urllib.request.urlopen with \r\n (specifically in the query string or PATH_INFO) follo...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
urllib in Python 2.x through 2.7.16 supports the local_file: scheme, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that blacklist file: URIs, as demonstrated by triggering a urllib.urlopen('local_file:///etc/passwd') call.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
SoftNAS Cloud 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allows remote command execution. The NGINX default configuration file has a check to verify the status of a user cookie. If not set, a user is redirected to the login page. An arbitrary value can be provided for this cookie to access the web interface without valid user...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-23
A sandbox information disclosure exists in Twig before 1.38.0 and 2.x before 2.7.0 because, under some circumstances, it is possible to call the __toString() method on an object even if not allowed by the security policy in place.