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Carbon Black Names Eric O’Neill National Security Strategist
March 2016 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Carbon Black® announced that Eric O’Neill, a former FBI
counterintelligence and counterterrorism operative who helped capture Robert
Hanssen, has joined the company as national security strategist.
In this role, O’Neill provides insight and advice on strategic cyber-security
issues and will work to enable Carbon Black’s active participation in the
conversation about the national strategy for cyber security. A practicing attorney
who specializes in cyber security, counterintelligence and counterterrorism
operations, O’Neill also will define and lead Carbon Black’s involvement in
national cyber-security issues.
O’Neill will work to facilitate Carbon Black’s contribution in
helping to identify and articulate solutions to solve the growing cyber threat
facing the nation, as well as underscoring the imperative to protect the endpoint.
O’Neill’s pivotal role in the 2001 capture of Hanssen, an FBI
counterintelligence agent who was convicted of 15 counts of espionage for selling
U.S. secrets to Russia, was the subject of the 2007 film Breach.
