The character of John Hunter is loosely based on a friend, Stuart McClure, who has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of cybersecurity including engineering, product development, marketing, sales, customer success, and executive leadership including Global CTO for McAfee/Intel, starting Cylance and Foundstone as Founder/CEO/President/CTO and birthing the cybersecurity practices for both Kaiser Permanente and Ernst & Young. Stuart is the founding author of the #1 cyber security hacking book, Hacking Exposed, which empowers defenders to understand the hacker tools, techniques, and procedures to prevent cyber attacks. Stuart earned his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy with an emphasis in Computer Science from CU Boulder.
Any errors about computer security in our fiction books are solely the authors.