Russ Mcree
Senior Director, Security Engineering at Holisticinfosec Llc
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss Mcree is a senior security engineering leader with a multi-decade track record building and operating elite defensive teams for major cloud and software platforms, currently leading Security Engineering at Adobe after directing the GCP Cyber Defense Center at Google and senior security functions at Microsoft. He founded HolisticInfoSec to champion a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to information security, publishes widely, and was recognized as a top vulnerability discoverer by IBM ISS in 2009. Russ blends hands-on incident response, threat hunting, and engineering with academic depth—a PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership and an MS in Information Security Engineering—while chairing doctoral dissertations. He also serves in state cyber defense as an OIC for the Washington State Guard and contributes to the SANS Internet Storm Center, reflecting a rare mix of public service and industry leadership. Not obvious from titles: he pairs deep technical program management with practical community education, continuously translating complex threat intelligence into actionable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Cybersecurity Leadership, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Cybersecurity Leadership at Capitol Technology UniversityGeorge SchoolMaster of Science (MS), Information Security Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Information Security Engineering at SANS Technology InstituteBA, English, BA, English at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (30)
social-engineering9
agile8
threat-modeling7
methodology7
security-testing7
beagle6
transition6
hacking6
security6
graph5
infosec5
animation5
tooling5
devsecops4
animated4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
holisticinfosec/toolsmith_R
Sep 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 4 years 9 months
securityinformation-securitysecurity-analysis
holisticinfosec/DFIR
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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