Malcolm Harkins

Malcolm Harkins is the Chief Security and Trust Officer at HiddenLayer. In this role he reports to the CEO and is responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and business processes. Malcolm is also responsible for peer outreach activities to drive improvement across the world in the understanding of cyber risks as well as best practices to manage and mitigate those risks. He is also an independent board member and advisor to several organizations. He enjoys being an executive coach to CISOs and others in a wide variety of information risk roles. Key areas of focus include the ethics around technology risk, social responsibility, total cost of controls, public policy, and driving more industry accountability.

Previously Malcolm was the Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cylance. Malcolm was also previously Vice President and Chief Security and Privacy Officer (CSPO) at Intel Corporation. In that role Malcolm was responsible for managing the risk, controls, privacy, security, and other related compliance activities for all of Intel’s information assets, products, and services.

Before becoming Intel’s first CSPO he was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Over Malcolm’s 24 years with Intel, he also held roles in finance, procurement, and various business operations. He managed IT benchmarking initiatives and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; was the profit and loss manager for the Flash Product Group; was the general manager of Enterprise Capabilities, responsible for the delivery and support of Intel’s Finance and HR systems; and he helped create an Intel business venture focusing on e-commerce hosting in the late 90’s.

Malcolm previously taught at the CIO institute at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and was an adjunct faculty member at Susquehanna University in 2009. In 2010, he received the RSA Conference Excellence in the Field of Security Practices Award. He was recognized by Computerworld as one of the Premier 100 Information Technology Leaders for 2012. (ISC)2 recognized Malcolm in 2012 with the Information Security Leadership Award. In September 2013, Malcolm was recognized as one of the Top 10 Breakaway Leaders at the Global CISO Executive Summit. In November 2015, he received the Security Advisor Alliance Excellence in Innovation Award. In 2023 he received the Cyber Defense Magazine award for the top Chief Security Officer. He is a Fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a non-partisan think-tank providing insights on cybersecurity to the House, Senate, and a variety of federal agencies. Malcolm is a sought-after speaker for industry events. He has authored many white papers and in December 2012 published his first book, Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable®. He also was a contributing author to Introduction to IT Privacy, published in 2014 by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. The 2nd edition of Malcolm’s book, Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable®, was published in August of 2016. Malcolm has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the “Promises and Perils of Emerging Technology for Cybersecurity”. He has also testified at the Federal Trade Commission hearings on data security. In 2023 Malcolm was a member of a task force led by the Center for Strategic International Studies to provide strategic direction and leadership for CISA’s evolving mission to protect the federal government.

Malcolm is on the board of directors for the Cyber Risk Alliance and advises several other startups.

Malcolm received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Irvine and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of California at Davis.