Mark Kennedy Mark, a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec, joined the company in 1991, and spent his first nine years there working on Norton Utilities, before making the transition to computer security in 2000. A named inventor on over 50 patents, Mark has worked over the past 20 years designing and developing new security technologies, from behaviour blocking to advanced machine learning. Mark spent 10 years as the Chair of IEEE's Industry Connections Security Group. The ICSG developed several technologies to assist the goals of security companies sharing information. In 2008 Mark helped form the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), where he has served on the Board of Directors, and most recently, as Chairman of the Board.