
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
A Dummies Guide to ‘Insider Trading’ via Botnet, Part 2
This post, the second of two parts, was written by Christiaan Beek, Raj Samani, and Shane Shook. In our first post,...
A Dummies Guide to ‘Insider Trading’ via Botnet
This post, the first of two parts, was written by Raj Samani, Christiaan Beek, and Shane Shook. Want to spread...
CryptoWall V3 and V4 Protection for McAfee Customers
Updated, November 6: Since October 30, the release date of the Cyber Threat Alliance report on CryptoWall Version 3, we...
Ransomware: an Insight to Financial Gain
This week, joint research on the CryptoWall Version 3 family was released by the Cyber Threat Alliance. In Lucrative Ransomware...
Ease of Buying Ransomware Fuels Affiliate Program
For several weeks after we released the McAfee Labs Threats Report, May 2015, in which we discussed the topic of...
Stolen Credit Card Numbers Easy to Buy Online
We have seen an increasing amount of articles published about the “Dark Web,” underground cybercriminal sites that are hosted on...
The Rise of Backdoor-FCKQ (CTB-Locker)
By Raj Samani (@Raj_Samani) and Christiaan Beek (@ChristiaanBeek) In the McAfee Labs Threats Report published in November 2014, Senior Vice...
At McAfee, Protecting Customers Takes Precedence Over Seeking Headlines
One question I often hear is “When will McAfee publish a report on the latest threat?” It seems to be...
Iranian Keylogger Marmoolak Enters via Backdoor
Targeted attacks have several stages, sometimes called the APT kill chain. At McAfee Labs we prefer the model described by...
iDroid Bot for Sale Taps Into Mobile Wallets
During recent weeks we’ve seen a new botnet kit advertised in several Russian forums. The iDroidbot costs US$1,500 and targets...