Carl Woodward

Principal Engineer and Security Technologist, Intel Security

Carl builds the future with the Office of the CTO's Innovation Pipeline Team in Intel Security. He is a security veteran with five years of top secret UK government experience, five years with his own company Sanctuary Software Limited, and over six years with McAfee/Intel. Carl is currently focused on rapid prototyping of cloud and client technologies, next-generation enterprise malware detection/isolation, trustworthy computing, and closed operating systems. He is a sought-after expert in Windows internals, reverse engineering, advanced issue resolution, technical mentoring, and mergers and acquisitions tech evaluation/due diligence. Carl holds a B.Sc. in molecular biology from the University of Liverpool and an M.Sc. in information technology from the University of Nottingham. He is passionate about delivering next-generation security technology in the form of operating system-less security, trustworthy personal assistants, trust and isolation in BYOD, and safe data sharing. Carl is a mentor to a number of engineers and is passionate about encouraging diversity and equal opportunity within Intel, as well as developing engineers into technical leaders.


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