Foundstone


Foundstone is a practice within McAfee Professional Services that provides computer security services.

History

Foundstone was founded in 1999 by George Kurtz, Eric Schultze, Stuart McClure, Chris Prosise, Gary Bahadur, and William Chan. The company primarily provided information security consulting services then later created the Foundstone Enterprise Vulnerability Management product. Foundstone was acquired by McAfee in 2004. After the acquisition, the product team was integrated into McAfee's product development group and the services team was separated out into the Foundstone Division. Later the various service divisions of McAfee all merged under a single new division, called McAfee Professional Services and Foundstone became a group within it. Although Foundstone is owned by McAfee, it stays vendor neutral in order to remain impartial in its services.

Services and Training

The company's services are divided into four categories: Incident Response and Forensics, Strategic, Tactical, and Training with core services in the following:
Foundstone has maintained a presence within the computer security community through speaking engagements, free tools, whitepapers, and other initiatives. The company was one of the first to publicly offer their penetration testing methodology, described in the Hacking Exposed series of books.
; Publications
; Whitepapers
; Free Tools
; Open Security Research