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And still there’s more. Through their common roots in McAfee, Alperovitch and Kurtz have an extensive history with top cyber expert Phyllis Schneck, who appears in the Esquire piece from October. In fact, Alperovitch and Schneck were at Georgia Tech together (see the Esquire article), and later were vice presidents of McAfee at the same time Kurtz was McAfee’s chief technology officer (CTO). Alperovitch has obviously had a close professional relationship with Schneck; their names are both on four separate patent applications.
What is Schneck doing today? Since 2013, she’s been the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) – i.e., the chief cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Which department interestingly spent 2016 looking for reasons to federalize the supervision of state election systems. And, what do you know, conveniently found just such a reason in the CrowdStrike narrative that the Russians were behind the hacking of the DNC servers.
Schneck also served for eight years as the chairman of the national board of the FBI’s InfraGard program, a public-private partnership with the commercial security industry. Not a bad contact to have teed up in your smartphone, as the execs at CrowdStrike quite probably do.
An…interesting CIA connection
CrowdStrike itself doesn’t appear to have links with the CIA. But FireEye, a company whose work going back to 2013 attributes the two key “threat groups” implicated in the DNC hack to Russia, does have a link to the CIA. FireEye’s subsidiary Mandiant identified the two threat groups fingered in the CrowdStrike analysis as “APT28” and “APT29,” and connected them with Russia – work that figures large in the CrowdStrike assessment.
And In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, has been invested in FireEye since 2009.
FireEye’s Mandiant is one of two companies the Washington Post (link above) cited as “independent” firms “seconding” CrowdStrike’s assessment about Russia.