
Christiaan Beek is the Lead Scientist & Sr. Principal Engineer of the Enterprise Office of the CTO. He is leading the strategic threat intelligence research with a focus on inventing new technology, research techniques and models. Visionary and serving leadership is at the core of his day-to-day job, getting the best out of people and collaborate to make the (cyber) world safer and a better place.
In previous roles, Beek was Director of Threat Intelligence in McAfee Labs and Director of Incident Response and Forensics at Foundstone, McAfee’s forensic services arm. At Foundstone, he led a team of forensic specialists in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa during major breaches.
Beek develops threat intelligence strategy, designs and envision threat intelligence systems and new research techniques. Christiaan speaks regularly at conferences, including BlackHat, RSA, BlueHat and Botconf. Besides contributed to the best-selling security book "Hacking Exposed", he wrote a comic book about Ransomware, is a contributor to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and holds multiple patents.
More from Christiaan Beek
Shamoon Rebooted?
We have recently received notifications and samples from impacted organizations in the Middle East that have hallmarks of the Shamoon...
McAfee Labs Examines Whether Ransomware Is Coming to a Hospital Near You
Delivering uninterrupted services with immediate access to information is not an easy task. Doing it with legacy systems, a fragmented...
Wildfire Ransomware Extinguished by Tool From NoMoreRansom
McAfee and Kaspersky Lab, partners in the project NoMoreRansom, are pleased to announce today the availability of a decryption tool...
McAfee Teams With Industry, Law Enforcement to Thwart ‘Shade’ Ransomware
McAfee, Europol, Kaspersky Lab, and Dutch police have taken down the Shade ransomware botnet and captured encryption keys to unlock...
Attacks on SWIFT Banking System Benefit From Insider Knowledge
In recent months, we’ve seen headlines about the compromise of a bank in Bangladesh from which cybercriminals attempted to steal...
Targeted Ransomware No Longer a Future Threat
This post was written by Christiaan Beek and Andrew Furtak. In 2015, McAfee investigated a ransomware campaign that targeted the...
Ransomware Targets Healthcare Sector
When we develop threats predictions at McAfee, I personally like to conduct some proper research and base my statements on...
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Role of BlackEnergy in Ukrainian Power Grid Disruption
Recent reports of electricity outages across the Ukraine has led to significant speculation regarding the specific malware that was used...
Updated BlackEnergy Trojan Grows More Powerful
In late December, a cyberattack caused a power outage in the Ukraine, plunging hundreds of thousands of citizens into darkness...
Blockchain Transactions Create Risks for Financial Services
This post was written by Raj Samani and Christiaan Beek of McAfee , and Shane D. Shook, PhD. Trust is...