George Kurtz is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike together with Dmitri Alperovitch. He was also the founder of Foundstone and chief technology officer of McAfee. He authored Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions. He is also a racing driver.
Kurtz grew up in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, and attended Parsippany High School. He claims that he started programming video games on his Commodore when he was in fourth grade. He went on to build bulletin board systems in high school. He graduated from Seton Hall University with a degree in accounting.
After college, Kurtz began his career at Price Waterhouse as a CPA. In 1993, Price Waterhouse made Kurtz one of its first employees in its new security group. In 1999, he co-wrote Hacking Exposed, a book about cybersecurity for network administrators, with Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray. The book sold more than 600,000 copies and was translated into more than 30 languages. Later that year he started a cybersecurity company, Foundstone, one of the first dedicated security consulting companies...