Linda McCarthy

Linda McCarthy has worked with UNIX for over a decade, focusing primarily on security administration, hardware architecture, product development, and key management (encryption) technology. She lead a worldwide security research and development team at Sun Microsystems. She has also taught several courses at Sun, including classes in hardware architecture, system administration, and UNIX security. As part of her research Linda, has broken into thousands of systems on corporate intranets, often...See more

Linda McCarthy has worked with UNIX for over a decade, focusing primarily on security administration, hardware architecture, product development, and key management (encryption) technology. She lead a worldwide security research and development team at Sun Microsystems. She has also taught several courses at Sun, including classes in hardware architecture, system administration, and UNIX security. As part of her research Linda, has broken into thousands of systems on corporate intranets, often while posing as a new clerical worker at the company. She currently is a security consultant. See less