AV guru Jimmy Kuo heads to Microsoft
Industry veteran joins others from McAfee.
Jimmy Kuo, the widely respected virus expert and popular speaker, has left McAfee after over ten years working in their AVERT labs, to join the fast-expanding security response team at Microsoft.
Kuo follows several other industry heavyweights leaving their respective posts in recent months, including former
McAfee AVERT spokesman Vincent Gullotto, who has also joined the Redmond team, as well as former Virus Bulletin technical editor Fraser Howard, who has joined
Sophos as a Principal Virus Researcher after spending some years with McAfee. Larry Bridwell, until recently Content Security Programs Manager of iCSA Labs, took up
his new post as Vice President of Communications at Grisoft last month.
Prior to joining McAfee in 1995, Kuo also headed Symantec's labs. His role at Microsoft is expected to be as a senior security researcher or, as some rumours have put it, 'roving AV guru'.
20 September 2006
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