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Foundstone Expands Management Team in Response to Fast-Growing Market Demand; New Directors of Government Operations and Consulting Join Award-Winning Security Company.


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Foundstone Inc., experts in strategic security, today announced that Mark Curphey and Matthew Adams have joined the company as director of consulting and director of government operations This article aims to describe the financial expenditure associated with the operations and processes of world governments of all levels. Size of economic footprint

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Mark Curphey, one of the industry's early practitioners and a renowned expert in application security, will direct Foundstone's consulting practice. An experienced and formally educated information security director, Curphey has a proven track record of successfully managing corporate security teams and projects, consulting practices and software products. In addition, Curphey has specialized expertise in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 industry and web application security.

"Foundstone's strength in professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  is due to its people," said Chris Prosise, vice president of professional services for Foundstone. "Foundstone's ability to attract proven leaders like Mark Curphey is testament to our dominant position in enterprise security."

Matthew Adams, with 20 years of sales experience and a strong background in federal government contracts, will lead Foundstone's government operations. In previous positions, Adams has consistently exceeded performance goals as a result of his strong customer focus combined with government expertise.

"Government is one of the highest demand industries for strategic security," said Chris Kenworthy, executive vice president of worldwide sales for Foundstone. "Based in Washington, D.C., Matt will be instrumental in bringing Foundstone's leading security solutions to government agencies worldwide."

Before joining Foundstone, Curphey was director of information security for Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
  • Charles M. Schwab, founder of Bethlehem Steel.
  • Charles R. Schwab, founder of the brokerage.
  • Charles Schwab Corporation, the brokerage.
, the fourth largest U.S. financial institution ranked by client assets. While at Charles Schwab, he managed security technology, architecture and oversight programs across all global business units and was responsible for the security of thousands of real time trading, stock research, banking, bill pay, account aggregation Account aggregation is a method that involves compiling information from different accounts, which may include bank accounts, credit card accounts, investment accounts, and other consumer or business accounts, into a single place.  and investment planning applications. Curphey acted as Schwab's information security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the  representative on company-wide technology and operational review boards and industry committees and was the recipient of two "Excellence in Service" awards for team leadership. Before joining Charles Schwab, Curphey was consulting practice manager at Internet Security ''This article or section is being rewritten at

Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software.
 Systems, where he was responsible for continuous development of services, new and existing business and overseeing client consulting projects. He holds a Masters degree in Information Security from the U.K.'s prestigious Royal Holloway, University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies . Additionally, Curphey is the head of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) An organization founded by Mark Curphey in 2001 to help make open source software secure. With member communities around the world, OWASP projects are involved with specific programming languages, functions and ) which is dedicated to educating professionals in secure application development.

Most recently, Matthew Adams was vice president of federal government sales for Saba Software, where he led the public sector division, developed successful system integrator relationships, and was awarded "Vice President of the Year" for 2002. Previously, he was vice president of federal operations for Tumbleweed Communications. In his role at Tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as , Adams established the government sales team, led the company through several government certifications and developed alliances and partnerships with key integrators. Before joining Tumbleweed, Adams spent ten years at Computer Associates International with several positions of increasing authority, including divisional vice president, federal government division.

About Foundstone

Foundstone(R) Inc., experts in strategic security, offers a unique combination of software, services, and education to help organizations continuously and measurably protect the most important assets from the most critical threats. Through a strategic approach to security, Foundstone identifies and implements the right balance of technology, people, and process to manage digital risk and leverage security investments more effectively. The company has one of the most dominant security talent pools ever assembled, and has authored twenty books, including the best-seller Hacking Exposed. Foundstone customers include six of the top 11 Fortune companies and many U.S. government agencies. The company is headquartered in Orange County, Calif., and has offices in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Washington, Seattle and Singapore. For more information about Foundstone, visit www.foundstone.com, or call 877-91-FOUND within the U.S., and 949-297-5600 outside the U.S.

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