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Sr. VP & CISO, BlackBerry
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John McClurg is Blackberry's chief information security officer. In this role, he leads all aspects of BlackBerry's information security program globally, ensuring the development and implementation of cybersecurity policies and procedures. John comes to BlackBerry from Cylance where he served as Vice President and CISO.  Previously he served as chief security officer at Dell and held senior positions with Honeywell International, Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories, the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Department of Energy, the FBI, and the CIA. John co-chaired the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) of the U.S. Department of State and served as the founding chairman of the International Security Foundation. John holds a J.D. degree from Brigham Young University, MA in Organizational Behavior, BS and BA degrees in University Studies and Philosophy from Brigham Young, and advanced doctoral studies in Philosophical Hermeneutics at UNC-Chapel Hill and UCLA.
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posted in November 2019
44% of Security Threats Start in the Cloud
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  2/19/2020
Zero-Factor Authentication: Owning Our Data
Nick Selby, Chief Security Officer at Paxos Trust Company,  2/19/2020
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