Stephen serves as an independent Security Consultant performing security assessments, developing information security programs and strategies, and creating remediation plans for select clients. He is also Co-Founder of Community of Practice, a Silicon-Valley-based membership organization for Engineering VPs and CTOs. Stephen has experience including building and leading worldwide teams and designing some of the world's largest Internet services.

• Software Engineering
• Cloud Security
• Infrastructure
• Security Awareness
• Vulnerability Assessment

• Former Senior VP of Engineering at Symantec where he created their first cloud platform, a new secure cloud platform that acted as the foundation for SaaS security offerings, and a big data analytics platform
• Former Director of Security Engineering at Google
• Former Site Reliability Engineering Chancellor at Google managing a global team and supporting Maps, YouTube, Indexing, and Logging
• Former Chief Architect for Netflix
• Former VP of Engineering at Emasys, a semiconductor management software company
• Former VP of Engineering & CTO for Fort Hill Systems, an internet content distribution company
• Former VP of Engineering, VP of Professional Services, and CTO for Advanced Software Technologies

• Strategic Negotiation Coursework – Harvard Business School
• MS, Information and Computer Science – University of California, Irvine
• BS, Physics & Geology – Chapman University

Stephen McHenry, IANS Faculty member since 2016, provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in software engineering, cloud security, infrastructure, security awareness, and vulnerability assessment.